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Originally Posted by Hitch
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
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Hello, thank you for your answer.
I am not going to do anything against Amazon's policies. My goal is to make a society of noble authors who help each other. This is not a conveyor belt for books of any quality to get reviews, no. Everyone who buys/downloads a book might read it or flip through the pages; it is on everyone's conscience.
Amazon can't track it. The website is also anonymous for authors to use.