Sentences with phrase «review mills»

Not a troll but a paid review mill worker who posted on the wrong page.

There are paid review mills out there who, using one or two credit / debit cards, can post hundreds of reviews under different names, thus pushing up an author's chances of having his or her book bought.

(I've personally seen review mill sites, but they move around, so I don't have a link right now.)

It found one obscure review mill, devoted 4 pages to an expose of an issue nobody cares about, and slagged A) Amazon, and B) indie authors.

It seems as if every day I get followed by another paid review mill on Twitter.

by Anne R. Allen Last month the Seattle Times reported that Amazon is suing a bunch of paid review mills.

But from Pitchfork to Rolling Stone to SPIN, critics barely brushed the reason why Christian preachers were thanking Kendrick for his work and why Christian blogs were doing what the review mills never will — lyric analysis, song by song.

Here are a few alternatives to the review mills that will keep you out of hot water with Amazon, and in the good graces of your readers.

I wrote in May about how Amazon is cracking down on the paid review mills that have grown up around their review system (and all retail and service review sites).

A friend of mine was approached by one of those review mills and when she rejected them, her book was sprayed with one - star reviews.

Since I already touched on reviews — the bane of all authors at some point in their careers — if you haven't heard already, Amazon has decided to go after paid reviews and has sued several of these review mills.

Liz — That's really scary that the review mill attacked an author for her honesty.

There are so many of these review mills and their marketing is slick.

So an awful lot of authors are turning to these review mills thinking it's the way it's done.

The review mills are very clever at lying to their customers.

I'm a first time self publisher and finding my way round the system is not easy, however, thanks to your post, at least I know to be on the look out for the review mills.

There's a plague right now of paid reviews and some of those review mills also post on GR.