tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post1172603422040431844..comments2024-03-25T09:56:16.164+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: How do you confront a giant? - by Lu HerseyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-58417318956274255592018-06-19T10:17:56.652+01:002018-06-19T10:17:56.652+01:00It's fairly widely known that the Amazon revie...It's fairly widely known that the Amazon review system has become widely compromised by fake reviews, purchased reviews, free products in exchange for good reviews..... <br /><br />A large part of the success of Amazon has been based on what can loosely be described as the customer experience, and that is where the Amazon focus is. <br /><br />Hence the attention being given to reviews, and suspect ones. Through sometimes reading this blog, and from there, occasionally, Amazon reviews of various books. I've come to view a number of reviews as a little suspect. Not so much suspect, perhaps, but seemingly written in a precise, analytic style, familiarity with Key Stages this, that, or whatever.... someone 'in the business', so to speak....... that do not look like the comments of enthusiastic purchasers/readers.<br /><br />And which to Amazon thought police might well be candidates for exorcism.Andrew Prestonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14063661979113168003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-48505863051902847492018-06-18T12:56:57.204+01:002018-06-18T12:56:57.204+01:00I read about this business a while ago. Very stran...I read about this business a while ago. Very strange! In this country, children’s and genre writers are a small community, we all know each other. If you’re going to scrap reviews because people know each other, you might as well scrap the lot. I don’t usually review books by personal friends, but I will offer a guest post on my blog. But then, I’ll also offer that to people I don’t know, for other reasons. I have done only one review on Amazon, at the request of the publisher. My reviews are mainly on my blog, with the occasional few lines on Goodreads(which belongs to Amazon!). Perhaps you might consider the same...<br /><br />Sue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.com