Book reviews are mainly based on false reviews.
Apart from promotion, marketing, and the effectiveness of social media, book review plays an important role in the sales of books. A good review reflects on how good or great the book is, giving it a unique recognition, to entice book readers to go for the product.
Writing a book without any effort to sell it is like putting a lighted candle under an upside-down bucket; no one will see the ray of light, supposed to brighten the environment.
As a matter of fact, as an aspiring writer, I thought writing a book was the toughest thing on earth until I realized that the hardest part of being an author is facing the reality of promoting or marketing your book.
As a matter of fact, as an aspiring writer, I thought writing a book was the toughest thing on earth until I realized that the hardest part of being an author is facing the reality of promoting or marketing your book.
Like flowers depend on rain or water to blossom, every writer dreams of getting a good review to enhance the sales of his or her book; unfortunately, a review doesn’t come easily. Since it doesn’t come easy, many resort to the means of dishonesty, by faking reviews, at many bookstores, including Amazon, Createspace, and Barnes and Noble.
Life is full of dishonesty and cheating to the extent that, if you don’t follow up to live in that category, you are considered a fool in society. The desire to make it to the top has brought corruption to the book review industry today.
Many pay for a book review, something I will never do, the fact that I consider it a bribe to someone to review my book. If you are confident your book is good, please desist from paying for a review. This is advice I will give to any genuine author.
Many pay for a book review, something I will never do, the fact that I consider it a bribe to someone to review my book. If you are confident your book is good, please desist from paying for a review. This is advice I will give to any genuine author.
Let’s take, for example, if my book isn’t good since I have paid to be reviewed, there is a certain pressure on the reviewer to give me a good review. In my opinion, an author should rely on a review from an unknown reader.
Just be patient, no matter how long it takes. Don’t let the desire to sell your book at all costs push you into certain things that question your integrity and diminish your credibility as an author or writer.
Cheating ‘Bestselling, award-winning author, R.J. Ellory. He was exposed after faking his reviews for years to reach the top
Just be patient, no matter how long it takes. Don’t let the desire to sell your book at all costs push you into certain things that question your integrity and diminish your credibility as an author or writer.
Cheating ‘Bestselling, award-winning author, R.J. Ellory. He was exposed after faking his reviews for years to reach the top
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One of the famous writers who resorted to dishonesty by
cheating at the top is R.J. Ellory. The cheating, ‘Bestselling, award-winning’ author was caught faking Amazon reviews for both his own books and the books
of his competitors.
Ellory was caught writing fake Amazon reviews by fellow
author Jeremy Duns online. He praises his own work and fakes reviews against
his competitors, whom he sees as his enemies.
He sold millions of books under false reviews, while his
followers acknowledged him as one of the world’s greatest writers. There are
many genuine writers with good stories because they aren’t cheating; no one
knows, cares, or classifies them as good writers or authors.
They don’t
even have enough followers on Twitter or Facebook, because we are in a world where liars and cheats are easily accepted in society. After all, they often appear
on television to deceive the people.
Recently, one of the biggest online bookshops has deleted
many reviews that they suspected to be fake. Patience moves mountains. As writers and
authors aiming to sell our books, we should take our reputation and credibility
into consideration to live clean.