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Originally Posted by shalym
So which reviews on Amazon come from Goodreads without the permission of the Goodreads poster? Is there some criteria Amazon uses to decide that they are going to post some Goodreads reviews to Amazon, but not others? I'm looking at reviews for "A Discovery of Witches" by Deborah Harkness, and I'm actually not seeing duplication of reviews. Can you please point me to an example where reviews were copied to Amazon from Goodreads without the poster's permission?
Shari
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Shari, I knew about it originally because they used several of my own reviews. Apparently, the algorithm randomly selected those reviews where a 5 star rating was given. If you changed the rating to a 3 or 4, it eventually dropped out of the advertising page. Perhaps you remember the italicized review formatting Amazon had 3 years ago? Those are the reviews that came from Goodreads. The change to the 'verified purchase' may have changed how they do things. Don't know and I don't care enough to look them up.
Anyway, later on, I discovered an opt-out setting and selected that. If you look under your Goodreads Account settings, log in, select SETTINGS and then uncheck the box next to "allow partners of Goodreads to display my reviews". Wallah...your reviews are now limited to Goodreads and will not appear on Amazon.
Cinisajoy, I don't think I've ever had a pm from an author about my rating or review. Maybe I should read more books with living authors so that I can have a more exciting goodreads email!!