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Originally Posted by osnova
This fraud can become a big problem unless Amazon and B&N start policing such behavior. They can easily track if a certain IP address, or proxy, starts posting tons of either five or one-star reviews under different accounts.
So far, the only thing that I have come up to counter this as a small publisher, is to make calls to my customers to write a positive review when they write a "thank you" to me. I do not want to start a "war" with this guy because he appear to have "resources" to "kill" any publication with one-star reviews (I think I saw a spat between him and another publisher on B&N whom he drove into oblivion).
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But how can Amazon police the professional reviewers when obtaining a new IP address is so trivial? Maybe when we are all given an IP address at birth, to track our every online action
This is already a big problem, but as far as the public domain goes, all that work you put into your texts can simply be used by anyone else, and sold by anyone else as well. That's what the public domain is for.
There has been some discussion in congress about vetting every single site pre posting, placing the onus on google say, to determine if the content of said site is legal or right I suppose. This sounds like a very time consuming task.
To check every book that is uploaded to Amazon's servers.
I think that books are given a cursory glance before they are approved for sale, but seeing the number of fraudulent books up there makes me feel otherwise. When I upload a book to the Kindle Direct Publishing program the site takes a day or two to process the book informing me that Amazon is checking the book for quality. This quality check needs to be completely open and transparent if it is to have any meaning at all.
Amazon might have a team of 50 quality checkers but they probably need about 5000. At 20,000 dollars a year that would be 100 million dollars, probably not feasible. These quality checkers will need to be paid in something other than dollars.
