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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Did Amazon say in an email that books needed a 100 reviews?
What was the exact phrasing that Amazon used?
Weighting newer reviews more heavily makes perfect sense especially on older stuff.
I am assuming this was an email to all sellers not just ebooks.
Please clarify.
Goodreads reviews do not equal Amazon reviews.
What I hate is authors that say you reviewed on Amazon, now put the review on Goodreads.
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I don't require or even ask for reviews (and it shows). I've always felt that I write the book, someone buys the book, obligations are pretty much over. Reviews are great, but how can an author just go around expecting someone to do them?
I don't know who got the email. I know I got the email and it only addressed the weighting of reviews (newer being more "relevant" and a couple of other things.)
SEPARATE from that: The 100 reviews was separate and came largely from other sources (most of it hearsay, backed by some evidence that was SHOWN, but when you look at things on a case-by-case basis...it can be easy to see what you expect to see.) I did notice that after August, my books appeared to hit a sudden reduction/cliff in sales except for the newest one. That is why I went looking for information. Every year there are discussion about new algorithms. In my case, the heboughts/sheboughts where I can follow them have been reduced. There's a list on every author page that shows other authors being bought so you can track that list to see if it changes or if the same authors largely stay in that list. You can then click on those authors and go see if the he/boughts show your books in the list or if they have been pushed out by books with more reviews. Not scientific. But you can track that now and then to get a glimpse of what your audience is reading. This can be helpful to determine if your audience is largely a cozy reading audience or a UF reading audience...etc.
The 200 reviews came from an author who said her publisher told her that she needed to try to reach 200 because better Amazon algos would kick in for her if she could reach that number. It wasn't the first time I'd heard that (the first time the number was actually 100 and that was probably a year ago).