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17487087 No.17487087 [Reply] [Original]

>And this fella right here wrote a 1-star review on Amazon, whining about the quality of the Kindle version.
>Next up we have Abdul from Bangladesh, who wrote a 5-star review containing the single word 'good'.

>> No.17487598

>>17487087
lmao yes, weeks after publishing my first book i see on amazon with horror a one star review, awaiting an absolute literary BTFOing i discover to my frustration a review saying "item arrived late". Sales never recovered from it.

>> No.17487760

>>17487598
>"item arrived late"
I hate this so much. this shit is everywhere. what kind of psychotic idiot thinks ship time has anything to do with the item?

>> No.17487950

The book i wrote got exactly one review on Amazon. Four stars.

>> No.17488121
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17488121

>>17487950
>>17487598
>there are actual writers on this forum

>> No.17488136
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17488136

>>17488121
yeah man
you wanna read my book?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TGBGGF8

>> No.17488138

Abdul did nothing wrong

>> No.17488149
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>>17488136
>yeah man
>you wanna read my book?
No, it looks like it has to do with Native Americans.

>> No.17488156

>>17488149
What gave you that impression?

>> No.17489497

>>17487598
>a review saying "item arrived late"

Amazon should remove those; they're obviously a mistake. And indeed they have zero value because in most cases the bookseller is not identified.

>> No.17490917

>>17488121
Don't be fooled by LARPers, frognigga

>> No.17492481

> post something you wrote
> some asshat replies "damn ur a pseud lol"

>> No.17492563

>call someone a pseud who cares about /lit/'s opinion of their creative fiction
>secretly want to write something that gets picked up and memed by /lit/

why do we hurt each other so

>> No.17492625
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17492625

Plz rate my new "book" on Goodreads.com
>pic related
https://mega.nz/file/hsQkSJJA#apQKg_133Gk4mI-xiYfngAbVJZISbbFnF49VnhBaIJI
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08W3JQ369

>> No.17492656

pls more, I must know what to expect when I publish

>> No.17493065

>>17492625

Got a throwaway?

>> No.17493076

>>17488136
Aren't you dead?

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>>17487087
>Today we received a 1 star review for my book because it wasn't actually a package of precooked breakfast sausages.

>> No.17493158

>>17487087
I don't read reviews before buying books. I usually find books I want to read through stumbling on interviews with the author on youtube and thinking "I like this fella, I'll get his book", or by looking in the references & resources sections of other books I've read and enjoyed, or by searching for books on specific topics, oftentimes on relevant publishers' sites, and then I buy those books on Blackwell's, because fuck Jeff Bezos, and throughout the entire process I practically never read a single review. Sometimes I hit up goodreads, but usually to see how other people have rated books I've already read - it's never informed a purchase.

>> No.17493169

>>17489497
I always downvote and sometimes report such useless reviews.

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>>17487598
I leave 1 star reviews on independent writers just for moments like this.

>> No.17493639

>>17487087
Check out the 1-star reviews of Ulysses:

https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/0099511193/ref=acr_dp_hist_1?ie=UTF8&filterByStar=one_star&reviewerType=all_reviews#reviews-filter-bar

>> No.17493652

Amazon merges 1-star reviews for shitty Gutenberg paste jobs with 1-star reviews for high-quality editions.