Sentences with phrase «publishing fake reviews»

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These are journals that sport fake impact factors, that promise a 1 - week peer review, that publish tons of papers that contain plagiarism, and that annoy researchers worldwide with doltish spam.»

As we reported last month, Elsevier is retracting 26 papers affected by fake reviews; Ahmad Salar Elahi is corresponding author on 24 of them, including Khajehnezhad's now - retracted paper published in International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.

If you keep up with indie publishing news, you may have come across news of Amazon suing four companies that sell fake, positive reviews.

News stories included Amazon's fake review lawsuit, three recent seven - figure publishing deals for indies, the luck factor of publishing, the reasoning behind Oyster's new online book store, and the traditionally published author survey.

The decline overall in self - published titles is welcome for obvious reasons * and, that individual self - published writers are selling slightly more copies may indicate that legitimate marketing methods (that do not flood uninterested parties with unwelcome messages, that do reach target audiences and which do not contain pointless emphasis on fake / purchased reviews or bloated, meaningless «awards» rather than pertinent and honest content) are beginning to surface in this sub-culture.

In other cases, self - published authors like John Locke and Stephen Leather pay people to leave positive reviews or leave fake reviews themselves.

Amazon has laid out five arbitration demands in a complaint filed with the American Arbitration Association (obtained by TechCrunch, see below), accusing the involved parties of offering services to boost the number of pages read in books, fraudulent customer reviews, creating fake user accounts to download e-books and inflate the numbers and other schemes to boost the amount of royalties authors and publishers were able to pull from Amazon's self - publishing platform.

The idea of stealing another writer's words or trying to discredit them or falsifying reviews or trying to have people write fake reviews of my work sounds crazy to me, but I am guilty of highlighting the parts of the PW review that I liked most about my most recent book; it was a mixed review bc the reviewer thought the novel had too many coincidences / was too neatly wrapped up at the end, but that's one of my signatures, I think, now that I've written three books, two published, and one in the works, so I'm actually proud of the strange kismet, sometimes magical occurrences that happen in my work because they also happen in my life, and that's what this whole post is about: about being true to oneself, which includes a moral code, a writers and human code of ethics.

Meanwhile, publishing tongues were wagging this week in the wake of a NY Times article about the (apparently very lucrative) world of fake online book reviews:

Customers are captured through a variety of deceptive means — such as fake «independent» websites which purport to review all the self - publishing options available to writers (but only compare the various Author Solutions...

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All reviews submitted are published (unless we think the review is a fake), even if it is a bad review of someone who paid for a classified.

Earlier this month Denham told a UK parliamentary committee that's also running an investigation into fake news that she hoped to publish her review of digital political ad targeting this May.