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Originally Posted by Gmes
Hello,
I'm the author, and I struggle with my book reviews, especially with new releases. I'm sure many of you are familiar with the situations when you ask your friends and family to download/buy your book and write a review.
I know that feeling.
For months, I thought of creating a platform where authors can help each other get reviews for the books for free!
Later I discovered a similar service pubby.co, I've tried that but you have to pay money for the membership.
Ok, friends.
I've built that platform, yes it's ugly now, but it works! Later if YOU need it, it will work better.
The idea is that you have to write a review for someone first, then you'll get the point that you can use to upload your book and get reviews.
I'll not share any links, for now, to see how many people want to join the project.
Please, share your thoughts.
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I'll share my thoughts, having spent some time working on something like this, 7 years ago.
Here's reality--you can get reviews one of two ways. Your way, or via paid reviewers, period. There has to be an upside for the reviewers. They have no reason to leave the reviews, without either a) getting a review in return or b) being paid. You're not paying, so that leaves a).
If Amazon can crawl the site, all your "customers" will have their reviews removed--
all of them. Anything that looks remotely like batches of reviews, etc. Review swaps--and let's not blow smoke up our own asses here, that's what you're talking about--are
strictly forbidden.
Strictly. Forbidden.
I discussed it with ECR (Executive Customer Relations) and several other execs at Amazon. They're not having it. I wish you'd mentioned this here, first--I'd have told you this to save you the work.
Hitch