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Old 06-16-2017, 08:26 PM   #32
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Originally Posted by Turtle91 View Post
Don't want to bust any of your bubbles...but I think it's based on customer reports. If no one reports anything then you're ok. If some idiot (or competitor) reports "too many errors" (whatever that means) then you get flagged.

Such is the total lack of common sense on Amazon's part.
Yes, that's exactly right. When I wrote my first blog post on the problem--it was a community blog, I think, IIRC, back in...I dunno, 2010?...I relayed that the irony is, it's the authors that are selling, that are being read, that get the reports and the KQNs. The really awful books, the dreck that we all see and stumble across, the "horror story stuff" that people complain about, the books that NEED the complaints never get KQNS, because nobody buys them and therefore, non-existent readers don't complain.

@SigilBear: Obviously, I don't know anything about your book. But our experience is, it's our best-selling clients that get them, not the worst. It's most certainly not my intention to offend you; if your book is scrupulously clean, you are likely right.

FWIW.

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