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Originally Posted by WritePR
Ebooks that have dozens of reviews, all by people who got freebies from the publisher in exchange for reviewing it. Not only do many of those types of reviews sound fake, but it makes me wonder why if the book is so awesome, there are no reviews from people who actually bought it?
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Well, in fairness, once a book has a few reviews, some people won't bother. I did a few informal survey on another forum and had several people say that if a book has 10 or more reviews it doesn't need their review. I also saw people say that if they disagreed with the reviews, they generally didn't want to post one of their own. So reviews are kind of ... suspect for various reasons.
I think that books that really excite people get a lot of reviews--even a word or two in agreement with other reviewers to say "I loved it too." But the vast majority of books aren't read enough to get tons of reviews. Or perhaps it's a general lack of excitement.
I think writing reviews has become less common. Let's face it, Amazon wouldn't have started a "vine reviewer program" if they were getting as many reviews as they would have liked. That's one theory anyway...
*should be noted that I asked the question on a cozy mystery forum. I think genre can affect number of reviews as well.