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Originally Posted by Simon Wood
That said, a couple of months ago, a writer went after someone who placed a review on Amazon UK. She left comment after comment for the reader who'd left the review. A thread was started where everyone discussed the writer's bad behavior. How was the writer punished? With a book that reached the top 100. So maybe bad publicity is good publicity. :-)
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It is -- if your writing is tolerable enough that people enjoy reading it. In this case, after the flurry of initial novelty purchases, she's not going to sell any more ebooks; people won't recommend them to each other, and those who hear about her indirectly will see her blog comments first, and then see the reviews.
A mediocre writer can use a bad publicity event to get more readers, because almost anyone's mediocre writing is someone's favorite style. A bad writer can't pull that off. Outside of her immediate family who has practice with her syntax and context for her stories, I don't think she'll sell more than a tiny handful of ebooks, once she's stopped being the "point and laugh" center of the ebook world online.