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Originally Posted by Gmes
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.
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So...you're saying that all the authors put their books up there, for people to read--the authors anonymously, which
is actually impossible, if you think about it--and they simply rely on the goodwill of other people, other readers, to come along and review their books?
You're talking about NetGalley II. You put up free eBooks for people to read (how do you regulate how
many people download them????), and the readers may, or may not, post reviews at Amazon.
So, who benefits, here? Why would authors put their books up there, for free? What's their guarantee that they'll get reviews? Why use
your site and NOT NetGalley or GoodReads or one of the others that already exist? Why would readers come
there, instead of NetGalley, Goodreads or
get the THOUSANDS of free books on Amazon each day?
You haven't thought this through. I can tell, because I have, and I did. The ONLY way it works is if authors are guaranteed that they'll get reviews--good, bad or indifferent--and the readers are themselves authors, putting their own books up for review. And the moment you do that,
you've violated Amazon's policies. The only
other way is to pay reviewers, citizens, to review and yup, that violates Amazon's policies.
Otherwise, authors have
no reason to put their books up on
your site for free and readers have no reason to review them. You've created no BENEFIT for either side. You either have reciprocity--forbidden by Amazon--or money--forbidden by Amazon. There's no other route.
You realize that you're asking authors to put their books up, for free, unregulated, for any Tom, Dick or Harry who comes along to read and then being dependent on
The Kindness of Strangers to get reviews.
At least when they do that on Amazon, they get paid or get page reads. Surely you can't POSSIBLY argue that they'll get more foot traffic with your site than Amazon's? So, why should they put their books up on YOUR site?
You can't answer that. I already know that.
Hitch