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Originally Posted by HarryT
That's regrettable.
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You mean ARCS? Obviously I like being able to provide ARCS, but the real reason is because ad places REQUIRE there be reviews or they won't do an ad. As writers, we want ads at release. If ad places didn't have reviews as a requirement, I wouldn't care, but with much of the industry having done it for years, it would be pretty hard to change it.
I don't think this change will mean more honest reviews. It's just a control thing and is more likely to hurt the competition and/or force the competition pay directly into Amazon's Vine program--pay to play. That's not a good thing.