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An interesting quandry for Amazon Vine reviewers
If you really hate a book, should you review it? That’s the dilemma facing some participants of the Amazon Vine reviewing program. The program offers free advance reading copies in exchange for a review posted on Amazon’s site. My friend Christine, a top reviewer at Amazon, is one-fifth of the way through a book she [...]
More tidbits on Amazon Vine and prepublication reviews
Have you gotten your invitation to Amazon Vine yet? Many of Amazon’s Top Reviewers have volunteered to review advance copies of books after receiving this e-mail: Dear XXXXX: As one of our most valued customer reviewers, we would like to offer you a special invitation to join an exciting new Amazon.com program called Amazon Vine. [...]
Reader comments for "Plug Your Book" by Steve Weber
Revisions, updates & reader feedback for Plug Your Book! Online Book Marketing for Authors Contacting Amazon Top Reviewers Recently I’ve received several messages from authors who have tried to recruit Amazon “Friends” to review their book. (The process I outlined in “Plug Your Book” is recounted here.) Apparently, this no longer works because Amazon no [...]
Amazon cuts social-networking features for authors, customers