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"In an interview with the Guardian, Rice says the “anti-author gangsters” make her a victim of bullying."
That's pretty funny coming from a woman who's been known to sic her fans on anybody who criticises her work.
Though I do agree with LC, non-purchaser reviews are just asking for trouble.
Amazon banned me forever on its sellers board.
So its a good thing I never published a fan fic I wrote where a "wamphyrie" from Brian Lumley's necroscope series kills Lewis and Lestat for their incessant whining.
She's self entitled diva and it speaks volumes about her pettiness that as much success as she has had she can't take criticism.
Oh boo fucking hoo.
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However it would be interesting to see if it gets anywhere because the anon reviews are BS on amazon, but more so is the ability to post a review without making a purchase and I'm sure Rice will get into that as well. If amazon did change their policy it could benefit all authors over there, both great and small
Then again I would not out it past amazon to only change policy for books by major publishers and not indie authors
My wife complains about the positive reviews on Amazon. She reads a lot of Romance stories and shops on Amazon for many things. She says that at times there are dozens of positive reviews for certain authors or items that are posted in a very short time frame. Often when she checks the reviewer's other reviews he/she/it will have 'reviewed' far more items than one person could possibly read/use in the time frame.
It's an easy conjecture that there are fluff reviewers that saturate whatever item they are paid to saturate with good reviews.
My wife complains about the positive reviews on Amazon. She reads a lot of Romance stories and shops on Amazon for many things. She says that at times there are dozens of positive reviews for certain authors or items that are posted in a very short time frame. Often when she checks the reviewer's other reviews he/she/it will have 'reviewed' far more items than one person could possibly read/use in the time frame.
It's an easy conjecture that there are fluff reviewers that saturate whatever item they are paid to saturate with good reviews.
From selling or trolling?
My wife complains about the positive reviews on Amazon. She reads a lot of Romance stories and shops on Amazon for many things. She says that at times there are dozens of positive reviews for certain authors or items that are posted in a very short time frame. Often when she checks the reviewer's other reviews he/she/it will have 'reviewed' far more items than one person could possibly read/use in the time frame.
It's an easy conjecture that there are fluff reviewers that saturate whatever item they are paid to saturate with good reviews.
The friends of self-publishing authors have pretty much watered down the usefulness of Amazon reviews.
It wasn't that long ago that we had regular posters to this forum asking for contest votes for contests off the web site and suggesting "you scratch my back/I'll scratch yours" voting and reviews.
Please don't confuse my "leave me a comment and I'll leave you one" policy with vote swapping. I think it's a pretty good way to discover authors I like. And it's much more fun when someone actually reads my stories.
And it's certainly not how I won Valentine's Day.
I blew the judges.
Jimmy Kimmel should make a Celebrities Read Mean Tweets writers edition. Anne Rice would be a perfect candidate...