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Originally Posted by anamardoll
As a reader/buyer, I would be more likely to buy a book with one 5-star and one 4-star (or even one 3-star!) than a book with JUST one 5-star.
In the former case, one suspects that at least one of the reviewers kinda liked the book. In the later case, one fears that the only review is a shill.
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Right... but when you pull up book lists they often sort by rating.. so if there are 100 books with 5 star reviews, and you take that 1 book that has 1 5 star review and give it a four... then not only does it drop out of the top 100, it also goes to the bottom of the 4.5 star reviews since they sort by number of reviews often when reviews are equal.
So that means there is a MAJOR impact to your likelihood of even seeing the book, ever, just because I gave it a 4 star review. I have a hard time doing that to an author.