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Originally Posted by gmw
[crickets singing in the dark*]
Of family, my wife and I are the only ones using ereaders, and the only ones that frequent online book stores ... and my wife never left a review, not sure what that says. 
Seriously though, the only reviews worth much are unsolicited, and since only a small percentage of readers leave reviews the only way to get many those is to market your book well enough to have lots of readers (note to self: need better marketing).
I'm not even much of a fan of the "free copy for a review" basis you see spoken of in Goodreads reviews, but a quid-pro-quo system of reviews seems too much like buying reviews if you ask me, and that's not something I'd be happy to support.
* We need a smilie for this! |
I'm with you on this: I don't solicit reviews.
You want to write a review - Great! You don't want to write a review - Great!
I'm not going to waste my time sharing reviews. I'm going to read books - good books, bad books. Books that make me cry. Books that make me laugh. Great books and trashy books. And books that make me throw up.