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January 20, 2022

CONVERSATION: What’s Important to You in a Review?

JanineConversationsAmazon / book buying / book pimping / book reviewing / Book Reviews / critique / differences of opinion / fake reviews / Goodreads / honesty / Humor / mini reviews / negative reviews / online reviewing / reader response / recommendations / review blogs / review grades / spoilers / transparency30 Comments

Janine: As a reviewer I think a lot about what I want to see in reviews. I try to notice what kind of information I appreciate most or least in other people’s reviews because it helps me craft my own. I think that what we value in reviews is a ... more >

April 6, 2016

Wednesday News: Amazon bans bloggers, Tennessee’s Bible bill, sex coloring book, and trolls v. jesters

JanetPublishing Newsadult coloring books / Amazon / Bible / fake reviews / Tennessee / US Constitution4 Comments

Amazon, you hit like a bitch. – So apparently a number of book bloggers have become caught up in Amazon’s war against fake reviews, as this post from The Never Ending Book Basket details. This blogger was sent an email from Amazon indicating that Amazon had deleted her 300+ reviews and would no ... more >

Wonder Woman
January 27, 2016

Wednesday News: Kitty-in-Boots, Fakespot, #1000BlackGirlBooks, and Scotland in comic book movies

JanetPublishing News#100BlackGirlBooks / Amazon / Beatrix Potter / cats / children's literature / Comic books / diversity / fake reviews / Movies / reviews / Scotland4 Comments

100 Years Later, Beatrix Potter’s Tale Of A Fanciful Feline To Be Published – Penguin UK editor Jo Hanks happened to find an unfinished copy of a new Beatrix Potter series, Kitty-in-Boots, that Potter had hoped to finish, were it not for World War I and other “interruptions.” Because Potter had ... more >

October 20, 2015

Tuesday News: Amazon tracks down fake reviews, awards and book quality, authors and readers, and writing as a second job

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / authors / Book Awards / fake reviews / fiverr / Joanne Harris / lawsuit / readers / reviews / writing advice9 Comments

Amazon sues 1,114 reviewers, some selling their opinions for $5 – So it seems that the ubiquity and brazenness of of positive reviews for sale on Fiverr has finally backfired. Amazon has filed suit against more than a thousand for-profit fake review sellers (I won’t even call these folks reviewers, because they ... more >

September 21, 2015

Monday News: RIP Jackie Collins, HC’s global campaign, fake app reviews, and public domain martial arts movies

JanetPublishing Newsapplications / bonkbuster / fake reviews / films / global publishing market / Harper Collins / Jackie Collins / martial arts / obituary / public domain / publishing / reviews3 Comments

Novelist who redefined the ‘bonkbuster’ genre with her tales of bad behaviour in Hollywood. Source: The Telegraph Thank you to Katie F., who answered my Twitter call for a good obituary on Jackie Collins. I think this long profile from The Telegraph is great, because not only does it treat her work ... more >

oyster
April 9, 2015

Thursday News: Oyster e-book store, Amazon goes after fake reviews, WWI Gallipoli photos, and Maya Angelou mix-up

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / Australia / book subscription service / digital bookstore / fake reviews / Joan Walsh Anglund / Maya Angelou / Oyster / photography / World War I6 Comments

All The Books, All in One Place: Introducing Oyster 2.0 and our New Ebook Store – Oyster, which has one of the most successful digital book subscription services, announced yesterday that it is adding an ebook store to its business, which is now being referred to as the “Netflix for ... more >

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