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Originally Posted by Fbone
Earn extra income from affiliates? Start by saying "This is the best book I ever read" and collect that 6%. My worst offender yesterday was an self pubber with 63 out of 64 five-star reviews.
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I have to wonder with that many reviews, whether it's actually a decent book (as 5-star is now the new "average", it seems) or the person is really, really dedicated at writing sock puppet reviews. Could they have really found that many real people willing to plant false reviews for $5?
p.s. Affiliates get 4%-8.5%, depending on volume (although at B&N, it's zero percent, plus you get charged if someone uses a coupon, so you end up paying B&N to send them customers...). For free books, it doesn't add up very quickly, though (and for most of the self-pubbed books, you don't even make enough for a phone call, even if you could find a working payphone, let alone a soda to wash the story down with). In one of my reviews, I wrote that the book was the worst I had ever read and finished (which I only did because I paid really money for it); I repeatedly mentioned how bad it was over the next year. Yet, people clicked the link and BOUGHT the book and the publisher sent me the next one he wrote, free (in hardcover). I can honestly say it isn't the worst I've read (but perhaps might be in the running for #2), but it was a struggle to finish it. I've put off writing the review of it, while I try to find the right phrasing (and I really don't want others to buy it).