An often understated influence When the majority of
the review authors ranked the quality of the evidence supporting each of the claims, Cooper found no correlation between the amount of volunteer - collected data backing up each claim and the confidence the researchers had in the claim's reliability.
Not exact matches
In a 2006 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the
authors reviewed 1000 research articles from 10 high -
ranking, international peer -
review journals and found that up to 11 % of articles had
authors who weren't named.
As a published
author and one who teaches social media marketing for
authors, I'm trained to refresh my Amazon page daily to see if there are new
reviews or the current status of my
rank.
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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.
If you're looking for ways to increase your book /
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The
authors who have received these not so polite threats of having their books pulled from Amazon (costing them their
rankings and their
reviews, even if Amazon later realizes the error and reinstates the book) have repeatedly stated that they are entitled to use a very old word in their titles.
If
reviews and sales
rankings are anything to go by, readers aren't keen on the idea of $ 2.99 short stories, even by established
authors.
Author Central is a separate website where you can track your author rank, customer reviews and set up more page information for each
Author Central is a separate website where you can track your
author rank, customer reviews and set up more page information for each
author rank, customer
reviews and set up more page information for each book.
Don't make posting a
review a condition for entering your contest, as e-retailers have to be careful about
authors trying to «game» their
ranking system.
A few of us got
reviews, all got feedback on our blurbs and covers, but most saw only modest, if any, increase in sales, with the exception of one
author who reported enough sales to boost her book well into the top 100
ranking area in several categories.
This competition analysis screen gives you information related to the title, subtitle,
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I've seen so many
authors promoting their book so hard, and when they actually get me to go to their amazon page, they have no
reviews and a low sales
rank!
Reviews help improve the
ranking of books on Amazon which in turn helps the
authors continue to produce products to offer the reading public...... just a thought!
We recommend that our
authors gift books via Amazon to reviewers as this helps their sales
rank, and we have not yet had a problem with those
reviews being pulled.
«As our publicist for a first time memoirist, Stephanie was able to facilitate placement in The Huffington Post and our title's selection as one of IndieReader's Best Books of 2011, not to mention over 15
reviews, Amazon sales
rank improvement, and invitations to private & public
author events with high volume traffic.
That way the
author doesn't risk later having to re-upload the book as if it were an entirely new product, losing sales
rankings and
reviews in the process.
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.
While the Times has been
reviewing and
ranking ebooks for a short time, this marks the first time an
author — albeit an
author with a strong platform due to his well - known body of work as an entertainment critic, as opposed to an unknown debut
author — has crossed over into its mainstream book
reviews with a two - page
review.
I must say I hear a lot more stories of
authors who were scammed by paying for bogus «systems» «programs» guaranteed to get you tons of
reviews or high
rankings.
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Word is spreading that some of the big publishing houses are actually even hiring individuals to post poor
reviews for indie
authors for the sole purpose of bringing their
rankings down.
It's a sad state of affairs, and I can only hope that the self - published
authors who are giving other
authors bad
reviews will eventually learn that readers usually don't trust books that get nothing but perfect
reviews, and that, since their sales
ranking on Amazon, at least, is very low, they're not selling any books anyway and they'll stop trying to be
authors.
Her expectations are all
authors can keep their hard - earned
rankings and
reviews by simply altering the title of all iterations in ebook, print and audio.
Explore and
review author's current «digital footprint» including website, blog, social media sites, Google search
ranking
• Content •
Author • Price • Number of pages • Binding • Publication date • Special features • Sales
ranking •
Reviews • Advance (if traditionally published) • Sales
Those sales
rankings might be driven by interviews,
reviews, word of mouth, social - media performance directed by agency specialists who have proven their skills in creating market presence and profits for
authors.
Readers also want to decide for themselves how many stars they're looking for in Kindle
rankings, and how many
reviews are enough protection against gaming the system by an
author or publisher's friends and fellow booksellers.
When I
reviewed How to Get Good
Reviews on Amazon: A Guide for Independent
Authors & Sellers here a few years ago, I noted that reviewer
ranking is influenced by the number of times that site users select «yes» when asked «Was this
review helpful to you?»
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Authors, Self Publishing • Tags:
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author rank, blog, blogger's block, blogging, book
reviews, Google, indie
author, interview, new blog, new blogpost, self - published
author
Amazon has a service called
Author Central, which allows you to provide more information about yourself (here's my humble page), feeds from your blog or twitter profile, and also check on details of your books, their sales
rankings and
reviews by customers.
On a positive note, there are some
authors who are excited by the opportunities KU brings, such as helping to build an audience, gain name recognition, get more
reviews, climb sales
rankings, and more.
And if someone discovers you've done it, you stand a chance of losing not only those bogus
reviews but also your legitimate
reviews, your book and
author rankings, maybe even the right to sell your book through that venue at all.
KDP Pricing Support factors in each title's length, category,
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Our book publicity firm represents a wide variety of
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I hear about indie
authors with excellent sales
ranks, hundreds of
reviews, winning awards, and otherwise succeeding in the publishing business.
If they're with a traditional small or mid-sized press, they may have an ebook, but they don't know how to get online
reviews or set up an Amazon
author page, so their book
ranks at about # 7,891,000.
But that means they own the files (and don't share with the
author), and they own the ISBN (which means the
author must start over with
rankings and
reviews if they don't want to use (or pay) the company anymore).
So I'd put up preorder, get
reviews up on the book to improve conversion, and advertise ibooks / kobo but not Amazon, until launch day — that's when I'd tell the
authors to share really hard, after launch, when the
rank can spike.
Authors are using the Countdown Deals to promote the books, gather ratings,
reviews, in order to jump up in the Kindle Store bestseller
rankings.
So far the big Amazon crackdowns have been aimed at
authors trying to buy positive
reviews and manipulate a book's
rank upward.
According to the article, when Locke's initial strategy of building relationships with readers, one blog post and tweet at a time, didn't move his sales
ranking fast enough (he complains it took him «almost two months» to garner five five - star Amazon
reviews — cue the sound of a thousand
authors» eyes rolling), he bought 300
reviews to make his fan base look larger than it was.
You'll hear that more than 50 — or 100 — «likes» will get more recommendations, or any 3 - star or lower
reviews will exclude you from the also - boughts or downgrade your
author rank.
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Many
authors attest that this
review process
ranks among the most extensive for any scientific document.
I see problems with: * you have to be an active promoter of yourself to get articles read * the
review process (mainly there is no ability to assess why rejected articles are rejected and the time wasting because of pedantic comments) * project - based funding and treating research like consulting (if I can tell you how much a project will cost, then by definition it is not research) * since academia seems to be drifting towards consulting, researchers start to become underpaid compared to peers in consulting * the focus on the number of publications weighted by the
rank of the journal * status is based on if you publish in a high -
rank journal, «selected» to be a lead
author, and so on, and not whether you do good and creative research, good collaborator, good colleague to peers, etc..