Sentences with phrase «remove author reviews»

I understand that on Amazon they often remove author reviews.

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In February, the journal Vaccine temporarily removed the study without explanation, and told the authors the editor had asked for further review.

Sen. Paul Farrow, R - Pewaukee, author of the Senate school accountability bill, said Tuesday the Senate will still work on its accountability bill, and is likely going to remove the legislation's proposal to create two review boards for schools at the state's DPI and Department of Administration.

They removed linking and tagging because they were being used to spam and manipulate product rankings, and authors from reviewing because there were a bunch of jackasses (commercial and indie authors alike) who were going to competitors» pages and writing truly vile reviews.

Amazon removes reviews for a number of reasons that can include when an author writes a bad review of a «competitor's» book.

I've just noticed recently that the reviews have been removed from my Amazon Author account and my Goodreads account.

Update: Kobo has released the following statement to Good e-Reader: «Kobo has reviewed its catalogue and removed the content, authors and publishers in question.

It begins, «We removed your Customer Reviews because you know the author personally.»

Nor is it any secret that many of those complaining about Amazon removing reviews from Clinton's book have been vocal in demanding Amazon remove 1 - star reviews that attack books by authors they support.

I don't know a single author who hasn't at least considered asking Amazon to remove a review at some point or another.

Many authors are finding that Amazon is arbitrarily removing reviews if they determine it's biased by friends and family.

Double Blind Book Reviews will use a double blind as the name implies, author and reviewer will not know the other's identity to remove as much reviewer bias as possible.

That's why Amazon has been removing any reviews from people who have any possible connection with the author.

First time I only knew as an author contacted me — she thought I'd removed it and wondered why, second time I only discovered when i tried to add a review for an ARC.

Which kind of sucks, because it means that if you have a strong author platform, a big email list or legions of fans who can post quick reviews, those reviews might be deemed «suspect» and possibly removed.

Amazon has also removed numerous reviews because of the hint of purchased reviews, which authors have admitted to so they could rank higher and sell more books.

However, negative reviews that contain respectful criticism relevant to the book will be posted, and we will not consider an author's request to have those reviews removed.

I have had reviews removed because I follow the author (s).

Not only that, any member who personally attacks an author in a comment, a shelf, or a review should be immediately removed from the website.

The other unfortunate part is Amazon removes their reviews with no recourse available to the author.

As a result of the wordmark filing and the letters issued to remove the word cocky from their titles, some authors have already changed their titles in order to avoid losing their reviews and their sales when they are compelled to remove their books altogether for infringement.

Also, it's unfair for an author to be forced to essentially harass a paying customer, and ask them to email Amazon, asking why their review was removed.

I've heard authors claim that Amazon is more likely to remove non-verified reviews before they remove verified.

One author I know said he had all 3 of his reviews removed (he only had 3) and he was a bit distraught over it until several of us let him know that we could still see those 3 reviews up from our side.

As I posted on Passive Guy's blog: I would just like to point out that Amazon published authors like myself (Thomas and Mercer) are NOT immune from reviews being removed by Amazon.

Further to your email, I understand that you'd like the product description and Editorial reviews of your kindle books to be removed from the Author central account.

I also talk to fellow authors about making sure they don't link Amazon to their facebook or twitter accounts, as the Amazon crawlers are making those connections in their database, and removing reviews that might be legitimate, but since that person is your «friend» on your author facebook profile, Amazon sees it as a non-legitimate review.

First Amazon deleted positive reviews that in its estimation — and its estimation only — were fraudulent (many, many authors had 5 - star reviews removed that they had nothing to do with) and allowed clearly illegitimate reviews to remain, but now they are removing the tags which help readers find books.

With the advent of self - publishing, there are presently hundreds of thousands of authors who feel that they have a bad review that should be removed for one reason or another.

I'm a TP author but I also self - pub and I have notice that for my latest SP release, I've had no marketing email sent out by Amazon, and reviews have been removed, when I did get email marketing support from Amazon and no reviews removed at the beginning of the year.

To our self - publishing partners... significant amount of negative media attention... offensive material... we are taking immediate action to resolve... removing titles in question... quarantining and reviewing titles to ensure that compliance to our policies is met by all authors and publishers... as soon as possible... implement safeguards that will ensure this situation does not happen in the future... working hard to get back to business as usual, as quickly as possible.

When one author posted a negative review on Amazon's website, pointing out the publisher's fraudulent behavior, it, too, was removed within a few days — undoubtedly upon request by the Rosser, the publisher.

Which means that authors innocent of any wrongdoing get genuine, organic reviews from bona fide reviewers removed every day and the scammers and cheaters with fake reviews keep getting away with it.

Amazon has caused a firestorm in it's controversial decision to remove all book reviews that are written by authors.

If an author got a bogus negative review from someone who personally hated them, or some troll / flamer / jerk who targeted the author on an e-list, it was once possible to email Amazon and get the review manually removed.

Author's complain too loud about fake reviews; Amazon starts removing real ones.

Per the comments on this similar piece at http://dosomedamage * blogspot * com / 2012/10 / amazonreview * html it appears that only the reviews linked to an amazon author account were removed.

Since Amazon is unlikely to remove any review at an author's request (even the ones that say «I didn't read this yet» or «my Kindle broke in the middle,» the best thing you can do is have a laugh and shrug it off!

Because of this, GoodReads doesn't allow authors to remove reviews.

Earlier this month, I saw some articles about Goodreads and their new review policies, and I wonder if it will impact indie authors like the whole Amazon review debacle did / does (for more on that, read Indie Authors And Amazon Removing... Continue reauthors like the whole Amazon review debacle did / does (for more on that, read Indie Authors And Amazon Removing... Continue reAuthors And Amazon Removing... Continue reading →