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Amazon bans reviews based on free or discounted products
"Amazon bans reviews based on free or discounted products
Only books and reviews from the Amazon Vine program are exempt from new rules." http://arstechnica.com/business/2016...nted-products/ ...sorry for the wrong link initially. ![]() ![]() ![]() Last edited by kennyc; 10-04-2016 at 12:24 PM. |
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The Real Story: Amazon Bans Free Review Samples Which Compete With Its Amazon Vine Program
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That's one opinion, sure. I still see it as a positive change overall.
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![]() ETA: and the VINE program is nothing more than ARCs. It's just than they are banning the competition. Still though I don't think they will stop it. |
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Definitely a good move. We don't allow reviews in exchange for free books at MR precisely because they'll inevitably be biased (has anyone ever seen a bad "honest review I wrote in exchange for a free book"?).
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I think it's a good move.
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Even now if I don't finish a book I don't even rare it on Goodreads, I simply mark the book as DNF in Calibre and usually avoid the author in future. Last edited by Josieb1; 10-04-2016 at 01:03 PM. |
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*The exceptions are books liked by cronies of similar taste; that's sufficient. |
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Notably, books are exempt from this according to the article.
As for low rating "I received this book in exchange for an honest review", I've written plenty. As have most of the people I know who legitimately post ARC reviews on a regular basis based on books from places like Netgalley and Edelweiss. I've one starred books that Penguin sent me, and they kept on sending them. I don't accept books directly from authors for review though (I used to, stopped years ago), nor do most of the serious review hobbyists. I one starred one of those once, and got threatened with criminal proceedings (obviously, that came to nothing ![]() Remember these are the consumer reviews being talked about here. Editorial reviews (i.e. commercial, or published in trad press) are only allowed in the separate space set aside for them on Amazon. The 0.38 positive bias can likely be explained simply by "most people don't request a review copy of a book they are predisposed to dislike" though that would take another study to prove. |
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