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Originally Posted by Lima Bean
Yes, it's clear they read the entire book. See Cinisajoy's post above. If I'm reading her correctly, she is saying the same thing I am.
A lot of authors and readers alike assume a gifted book will show up as verified, because even if it wasn't the reviewer who purchased the book, someone paid for it. That's why you will find a lot of erroneous information about it on blogs and forums like this one. In addition, some claim there's a box the gift recipient can check or uncheck to give or take away verified status. If this mysterious box exists, unverified must be the default, because none of mine have come up verified. That's something I've been meaning to look into, so if anyone has any firsthand knowledge of said box, I'd be interested to know!
If you got a Verified Purchase from a book you gifted out, count yourself lucky. However, I am quite certain that is not what is happening on my end. Whether you choose to believe me or not, that's up to you.
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You've misunderstood what I said, and, based upon your ultimate sentence, you've patently misunderstood the intent of my questions.
I said that books that
I've been gifted, by OTHER people, (even from as far back as, say, four years), show up as verified purchases when I review them. Some are simply regular gifts, and some are from authors. I didn't say
I was an author, or that
I was gifting books out for review, or anything like that.
I'm trying to
understand the mechanism, and how Amazon could possibly be differentiating between books that have been gifted to me, for example, versus books that you've gifted to someone else. I suppose that it's conceivable that they've written an algorithm that simply discards any review written by any person that received a gift of a book directly from a publisher. On the other hand, I've absolutely been gifted books by authors, and my reviews show up as verified purchases. So, I have to wonder how it is that Amazon is making those distinctions--
that's ALL I am trying to understand. And I am specifically endeavoring to understand it BECAUSE there's all this damn drivel on the Net, half of it utterly wrong. I see what I see, and what I know to be factually true. You tell me something that is directly opposite. I have no reason to disbelieve you--that's why I'm trying to understand, to parse, HOW Amazon is doing what it's doing. Don't take it as some personal attack. It's a quest for information and knowledge. PERIOD.
Hitch