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Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash
At least a portion of the authors that read that will skip over the "successful self-pubished author" part and translate it to:
"Go nuts on Goodreads and Amazon might publish you on one of their imprints!"
Oy.
They will "increase their presence", GR readers will respond negatively, STGRB will make a big deal of that, and it will be Bullygate all over again.
I really, really hope I'm wrong but... Alas, we shall see.
There are many authors I interact with and love dearly, but their unrestrained and less professional brethren make me seriously annoyed.
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One of the benefits to GR is that the groups are moderated. Most authors don't get to go nuts for long before being blocked from groups (assuming the mods are paying attention.) Most of the groups have a place for authors to post and when they post outside of them, they get canned.
But they do have their sagas. Shrug. No way around that.
I'm not so sure that Amazon needs any additional data to "mine" for 'successful' writers. They have access to almost all the sales data they need. There are very few authors who sell more books on another retailer...unless they just use success as "number of reviews." Yeah, that could be bad...