You can identify scammers so please do more to defend your reputation against their antics
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Stuart Aken
9 years ago
We create the works your customers buy. Without creators, your business is nothing.
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Sowmya Suresh
9 years ago
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I think the 'related or close' IP rule is unfair to indie authors who can but get reviews just one way. This kind of logic is dangerous for creativity and must be tweaked/relaxed/axed. It is not correct to assume that relatives and friends will just 'happen by and fish out five stars blindly'. It is still a lot of hard work. Most high functioning adults do not want to attach themselves to anything that might seem nepotistic. If an author has found such a person willing to give him/her five stars, she/he must be genuinely talented.
Thank you for your time.
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Jennifer
9 years ago
Please listen!
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Aden
9 years ago
I don't even use Amazon anymore. The review system is a joke. It's also impossible to be seen.
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RL Kenderson
9 years ago
This needs to stop.
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Melodee Elliott
9 years ago
We authors have a business to run and don't want fraud be allowed. Thank you.
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Theodore Marlett
9 years ago
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Jeff Bezos, we know that you and Amazon continue to fail us. You and the people who run Amazon seem to be oblivious to the click farms and bots that are destroying KU and anything that an authentic author would do with Amazon Kindle books. We all feel that our complaints have fallen on deaf ears and have been replaced by the loud pocketbooks of Amazon raking in the money and not caring about anything but themselves. Please listen to what we say.
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Kristan Cannon
9 years ago
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Let's not also forget that authors are readers too, and would like to be able to voice their honest opinions on what they have read without having our reviews deleted for nebulous reasons because Amazon feels we *know* another author, even if we've only met through a writing group once.
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Kat Drennan
9 years ago
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I've worked very hard to write a flawless book, and get legitimate reviews from readers. Healthy competition is good and promotes excellence. bots and scams are not. Please help make Amazon the marketplace authors deserve.
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Vanda Rodgers
9 years ago
Please remember we are making money for you and play fair.
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Karen Rogers
9 years ago
Please listen to us!!!
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John Holt
9 years ago
One aspect that needs re-thinking is the question of reviews. It is clear that some reviews are malicious, and should not be allowed. Other reviews are not being allowed because the reviewer appears to be known to the author. That should nopt be a barrier to the review,
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Valerie Dickenson
9 years ago
As an author (Valerie Keogh) this situation is a disgrace. Amazon - sort it out
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carol ochadleus
9 years ago
Amazon has been a boon for authors to share their works. While most of us never make it to the big time, we appreciate the revenue we do receive from Amazon sales. We seriously hope that Amazon will make corrections to protect us so that we both enjoy the benefits of our business relationship.
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Shirani
9 years ago
When you promote your service to us you should also make sure that service provides us what it says it does, a place to sell our books. It should also provide us the guarantee that we don't get ripped off by people who aren't real writers.
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Valerie Ullmer
9 years ago
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We all work hard to put out quality books that connect with readers and if that is undermined by people trying to make a quick buck, then we are all in trouble. Please take action against these people, for your customers and the authors that publish on Amazon, some of them exclusively!
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Shelagh Corker
9 years ago
And that other favourite 1* "Haven't read it yet".
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Jane Barron de Burgh
9 years ago
I am signing this in the hope action against click farming is taken soon.
You can identify scammers so please do more to defend your reputation against their antics
We create the works your customers buy. Without creators, your business is nothing.
I think the 'related or close' IP rule is unfair to indie authors who can but get reviews just one way. This kind of logic is dangerous for creativity and must be tweaked/relaxed/axed. It is not correct to assume that relatives and friends will just 'happen by and fish out five stars blindly'. It is still a lot of hard work. Most high functioning adults do not want to attach themselves to anything that might seem nepotistic. If an author has found such a person willing to give him/her five stars, she/he must be genuinely talented. Thank you for your time.
Please listen!
I don't even use Amazon anymore. The review system is a joke. It's also impossible to be seen.
This needs to stop.
We authors have a business to run and don't want fraud be allowed. Thank you.
Jeff Bezos, we know that you and Amazon continue to fail us. You and the people who run Amazon seem to be oblivious to the click farms and bots that are destroying KU and anything that an authentic author would do with Amazon Kindle books. We all feel that our complaints have fallen on deaf ears and have been replaced by the loud pocketbooks of Amazon raking in the money and not caring about anything but themselves. Please listen to what we say.
Let's not also forget that authors are readers too, and would like to be able to voice their honest opinions on what they have read without having our reviews deleted for nebulous reasons because Amazon feels we *know* another author, even if we've only met through a writing group once.
I've worked very hard to write a flawless book, and get legitimate reviews from readers. Healthy competition is good and promotes excellence. bots and scams are not. Please help make Amazon the marketplace authors deserve.
Please remember we are making money for you and play fair.
Please listen to us!!!
One aspect that needs re-thinking is the question of reviews. It is clear that some reviews are malicious, and should not be allowed. Other reviews are not being allowed because the reviewer appears to be known to the author. That should nopt be a barrier to the review,
As an author (Valerie Keogh) this situation is a disgrace. Amazon - sort it out
Amazon has been a boon for authors to share their works. While most of us never make it to the big time, we appreciate the revenue we do receive from Amazon sales. We seriously hope that Amazon will make corrections to protect us so that we both enjoy the benefits of our business relationship.
When you promote your service to us you should also make sure that service provides us what it says it does, a place to sell our books. It should also provide us the guarantee that we don't get ripped off by people who aren't real writers.
We all work hard to put out quality books that connect with readers and if that is undermined by people trying to make a quick buck, then we are all in trouble. Please take action against these people, for your customers and the authors that publish on Amazon, some of them exclusively!
And that other favourite 1* "Haven't read it yet".
I am signing this in the hope action against click farming is taken soon.
Enough is enough!