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Fake Amazon Book Reviews Are Hurting My Book

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    JMK NI
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    Ovid (blog):[^]

    I really liked her in-depth, 5-star review of the Minecraft guide: I'm not really a fan of minecraft but with the help of this book, I became interested. I learned a lot from this minecraft guide. because of this book, I was intrigue and more interested in playing minecraft knowing different tips and tricks that can help me to win the game. Good job to the author! Wll-written! Highly recommended! Yeah, that's the sort of crap you're getting.

    I've actually read about a quarter of this book, it's really good and it sucks that the author has to put up with crap like this!

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      Ovid (blog):[^]

      I really liked her in-depth, 5-star review of the Minecraft guide: I'm not really a fan of minecraft but with the help of this book, I became interested. I learned a lot from this minecraft guide. because of this book, I was intrigue and more interested in playing minecraft knowing different tips and tricks that can help me to win the game. Good job to the author! Wll-written! Highly recommended! Yeah, that's the sort of crap you're getting.

      I've actually read about a quarter of this book, it's really good and it sucks that the author has to put up with crap like this!

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      Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan
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        Ovid (blog):[^]

        I really liked her in-depth, 5-star review of the Minecraft guide: I'm not really a fan of minecraft but with the help of this book, I became interested. I learned a lot from this minecraft guide. because of this book, I was intrigue and more interested in playing minecraft knowing different tips and tricks that can help me to win the game. Good job to the author! Wll-written! Highly recommended! Yeah, that's the sort of crap you're getting.

        I've actually read about a quarter of this book, it's really good and it sucks that the author has to put up with crap like this!

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        Brady Kelly
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        I have even participated in paid reviewing, of products, not books, but have always tried to be as honest as possible, by scouring the nets to find positive aspects of them, and not claiming to have owned or used them. During hard times a few years ago, at the fantastic rate of $1/500 words.

        No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde

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          Ovid (blog):[^]

          I really liked her in-depth, 5-star review of the Minecraft guide: I'm not really a fan of minecraft but with the help of this book, I became interested. I learned a lot from this minecraft guide. because of this book, I was intrigue and more interested in playing minecraft knowing different tips and tricks that can help me to win the game. Good job to the author! Wll-written! Highly recommended! Yeah, that's the sort of crap you're getting.

          I've actually read about a quarter of this book, it's really good and it sucks that the author has to put up with crap like this!

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          PIEBALDconsult
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          Who reviews the reviewer?

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            Ovid (blog):[^]

            I really liked her in-depth, 5-star review of the Minecraft guide: I'm not really a fan of minecraft but with the help of this book, I became interested. I learned a lot from this minecraft guide. because of this book, I was intrigue and more interested in playing minecraft knowing different tips and tricks that can help me to win the game. Good job to the author! Wll-written! Highly recommended! Yeah, that's the sort of crap you're getting.

            I've actually read about a quarter of this book, it's really good and it sucks that the author has to put up with crap like this!

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            newton saber
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            I've published 6 books on amazon and at various times I will also check out reviews and such. I've noticed there are numerous trolls and troll companies who create these fake reviews also. It's funny because the book mentioned in that original post I had just noticed and was very curious how it had received so many reviews. Statistics The reason I question the reviews are because of statistics. You see, i've sold a few hundred copies of my book, Object Oriented JavaScript - amazon link[^], but I've only had 2 reviews. People just don't review that much. It's about 1% or so. So if a book has 10 reviews it means it has sold 1,000 copies. And it is unlikely the book in question has sold 25000 copies. Anyways, I see that quite a few people have given it 1 star ratings nows so that is good. It hurts us selfpub authors who write real books with real information, because then people think our books priced at $2.99 are fake too. Thanks for the post.

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              Ovid (blog):[^]

              I really liked her in-depth, 5-star review of the Minecraft guide: I'm not really a fan of minecraft but with the help of this book, I became interested. I learned a lot from this minecraft guide. because of this book, I was intrigue and more interested in playing minecraft knowing different tips and tricks that can help me to win the game. Good job to the author! Wll-written! Highly recommended! Yeah, that's the sort of crap you're getting.

              I've actually read about a quarter of this book, it's really good and it sucks that the author has to put up with crap like this!

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              I've dug into some of the books as well as I can and it looks like someone is copying material from Wikipedia, a few online tutorials, and putting together cheap, poorly written eBooks with only a few pages of material.

              Abusing Wikipedia's CC license to sell "books" of scraped content on Amazon is an old swindle... :sigh:

              Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

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