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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
That in itself would lead to review abuse of the opposite type. Who would give a less than glowing review to something that they have the potential to profit from?
How can you have anything local on the internet? I don't think I would want to have to submit work for review to lots of local mini-stores and wait for them all to go live. It's bad enough having to put them on different warez sites instead of just one big central one for them to filter down from, that would create too much extra work.
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The writers of those types of reviews would be easily discovered, also while access to the site would be completely open, access to the internal review pool and thus the incentives would be tightly controlled by all members of the review pool. Writing fraudulent reviews would result in your review writing privileges being revoked.
A lot of people are still trapped in the buying and selling paradigm, you won't have to list your books anywhere except perhaps the original site. If your book is popular enough the readers will share your book for you. The ideal solution would be to enable the sharing of these books through the ereader. There's some work to be done for sure but I think there exists a good portion of writers such as yourself? Who would be very willing to subject their work to a rigorous peer review in exchange for some marketing help.
