Sentences with phrase «negative reader reviews»

Just a few mistakes can cost your book's reputation through negative reader reviews.

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Too little is known about the rest of their formula, and given the large quantity of negative reviews it is not possible for our experts to recommend that our readers take Omega XL.

I really hate to give a negative review, since I've only had positive experiences before this, but I must be honest with my readers.

Honest negative reviews can be incredibly helpful — to the reader and the author.

When this happens, you might get jealous or even secretly hope that readers will leave a bunch of negative reviews.

In most circumstances, readers will explain themselves when they leave a negative comment or review.

Authors (and sometimes readers) might also intentionally post negative reviews to drive people away from an author and toward the author of their choice.

I think most horror readers remember Anne Rice's rather public meltdown on Amazon.com regarding negative reviews of Blood Canticle [1].

You've undoubtedly seen the negative reviews on Amazon.com discouraging readers from purchasing a book because of writing mistakes and typos.

Avoid degrading or verbally abusing readers who give your book bad reviews or leave negative comments — it's not worth the trouble, and may actually end up hurting you and your author brand since the public can see your responses.

If you don't get any reviews, or some negative reviews, your book probably has problems or isn't good enough — by «good» I mean, does it satisfy readers of that genre, or not?

It's far better to get critique from a few beta readers than to receive negative reviews on Amazon.

Under Amazon's terms of service there is no obligation at all by the reader to leave a review, positive or negative.

And that is the point that I hopefully made in the article, that there are authors who not only rant but who enlist their legions of readers to counterattack a negative review.

The problem is, a lot of the right readers may just skim the Amazon page and see that a negative, 3 star review has been voted «most helpful» and assume incorrectly that the book must not be any good.

Besides, trust your readers enough to be able to tell a valid review — one that actually read your book and put some consideration into the review — from the ones who just like to troll indie books to give them negative reviews.

If you think that's totally unfair, I agree: most readers won't review a book even if they liked it; and most readers won't click to vote a book review as «helpful» unless it's a negative review.

But a minority of people (25, about of 150 in this case) clicked the «most helpful» button, leading to a negative review on top, which is giving new readers a false impression of the other reader's reactions.

Although Amazon is on the right track, and of course you don't want fake or misleading book reviews (because they lead to MORE negative reviews from disappointed readers), as a professional author you also need to do what you can to counteract Amazon's overzealous review removal policies.

And if you believe in your writing, you can not let the negative book reviews kill your sales and dissuade potential readers from taking a chance on your books.

The difference will be that you've removed the unfair impression that having a negative review on top generates, that the majority of readers did not like the book, even when the evidence (a four star average) clearly indicates that they did.

The feedback you'll get from your beta readers will sting, but it's totally worth it because they are saving you from countless negative reviews on Amazon.

But if real readers do like your books, then you have an obligation to keep getting your book in front of more readers who will like it, and possibly mitigating negative reviews that aren't relevant to your ideal readers as much as possible.

Done this way, I don't think I'll get negative reviews: I explain I'm not doing it to take advantage of readers; I'm doing it because I'm trying to find cheaper ways to get my books out to them.

The whole event was disappointing to us — that the writer took such a negative stance for a little publicity, that the J.K. Rowling fans have followed her to that same negative space, and that Amazon's review system has been compromised for readers wanting honest reviews.

In fact you could argue getting up even higher could be bad, because right now I have visibility in my section, but if I get up to top 10 in the free kindle store I'm going to get lots of downloads from people who aren't normal readers of my genre, which could lead to negative reviews.

From rejection letters to negative reviews, they realize after the fact that their books should have been fully edited and ultimately worthy of the hard - earned money that readers will spend at the book store or on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

We now have a whole community of readers who hate all self - publishers and often write swarms of negative reviews even if they haven't read the book.

Mixed and even negative reviews can still qualify as recommendations if we anticipate reader interest.

I think that most readers on goodreads.com have wised up to this and I don't think that those kind of negative reviews have much impact on whether a person decides to read a book or not.

As a result, I decided that it would be the last time I put in a reader review that had the least whiff of negative comment because I don't need those kinds of emails.

Some authors will say this is dishonest; but negative reviews always get the most «helpful» votes and show up on the front page of Amazon, and that doesn't necessarily reflect the majority of readers» reactions (out of 187 reviews, only 5 % of them are one star.

Negative reviews are a fact of life when you are dealing with the internet in general and readers who are hiding behind anonymity.

Once you've finished writing your book, you'll also have to deal with rejection from literary agents and editors, as well as negative reviews from readers.

Even negative reviews are important, since what one reader didn't like about your book might be exactly what another reader is looking for.

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I have seen so many negative reviews of books with readers saying that the book is full of typos and grammatical errors and that the author has not proof read the document carefully.

For readers, leaving negative reviews could reflect more upon themselves than on an author or piece of writing.

I am proud to say that to my knowledge, Readers» Favorite was the first company to not post negative reviews.

You need the right cover — the one that converts the most viewers into buyers; the one that properly manages reader expectation to prevent the negative reviews that appear when the cover is attracting the wrong sort of people.

Negative reviews direct the wrong readers (meaning readers that won't like it anyway) away from a book, and that's as critical to success as finding the right readers.

Of course, then, if you do get the cover of your dreams and still get negative reviews, you'll know it's either because that reader just didn't connect with your writing... or that you suck.

With so many negative reviews, including from your website, who do you or your readers recommend, other than Create Space?

• You don't tell reviewers what to say or how to rate your book • They're free to say whatever they want, including something negative • Early readers aren't your personal best friends • Don't post any fake reviews by pretend people, or encourage anyone to do that for you

The problem is not «bad» or «good» in the sense of negative or positive, but it looks like reviews for Independent books in Kirkus are done by junior high readers or trainees at best

It shows respect for your reader and it should also completely eliminate any future negative reviews regarding writing style.

As a reader, I pay no attention to positive online reviews (I do scan the negative ones, I admit), but I have bought several books via one of the «bargain e-books» newsletters I subscribe to (BookBub).

Readers, who supply reviews whether negative or positive, invested their time reading one of my books.

I have a goal of commenting in a positive manner on each and every review a reader leaves on Amazon about one of my books, whether their comments are negative o

If your book is riddled with typos, readers will point this out in negative reviews and your sales may suffer as a result.