There are three different kinds of
reviews that are often confused in the heat of the debate: 1) Customer, aka consumer,
reviews on online bookstores like Amazon; 2) peer -
reviews, by other authors and; 3) the
paid -
for reviews from organizations like your own and BlueInk
Review, where
indies can
pay to have their book independently
reviewed.
So, when I read this post which said
indies were ruining literature, do nothing but spam links on social, and that we always
pay for reviews, I thought seriously about what my response should be before I replied.