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Thursday, April 19th, 2012
Theme: Books and Blogging
Subject: Letter "Q"
Topic: "Quality vs. Quantity"
With all these FREE or 99cents books out there, and there is an overabundance of them, I start to wonder whether or not I have quality books, or if I just have quantity in my elibrary if and when I purchase these or grab them for free.
When I purchase a 99cents ebook or download a free one, (and this goes for ALL lower priced ebooks) I always make sure I read the synopsis and reviews on the book first to see if I may like it. This is where book reviews are SO important.
If I see a book only has 2 or 3 reviews on it, I will click on each person's review, especially if the review is a short 2 or 3 liner and the review is generally 'generic' or 'vague'. When that happens, in my opinion, I believe the person who wrote that review is a friend, an associate, or is related to the author. Sure enough, when I click on the name of that person, they have written only '1' review in their entire history on Amazon.
What does this tell me? That I am most likely correct in my assumption that the reviewer's of that book IS a a friend, a business associate, or a family member who may not have even read the book. In this case, the author probably has not taken the time to request reviews from Book Reviewers/Bloggers and has taken the book directly to Amazon and put it on special first before requesting book reviews.
WHY would an author commit 'Russian Roulette' like this with their writing career, and why do I say it is that? Because there is SO much riding on the book reviews that particular author does NOT have when . . .
If you would like to read the rest of this article, please click on this link: http://www.lauriehere.blogspot.com/p/to-z-challengeblogging-april-2012.html OR click on the TAB above that say "Blogging from A to Z Challenge - April 2012".
PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT! I WOULD LOVE FEEDBACK especially on this article!
Thanks, and I'll see you tomorrow with the letter "R"!
Laurie
Thursday, April 19th, 2012
Theme: Books and Blogging
Subject: Letter "Q"
Topic: "Quality vs. Quantity"
With all these FREE or 99cents books out there, and there is an overabundance of them, I start to wonder whether or not I have quality books, or if I just have quantity in my elibrary if and when I purchase these or grab them for free.
When I purchase a 99cents ebook or download a free one, (and this goes for ALL lower priced ebooks) I always make sure I read the synopsis and reviews on the book first to see if I may like it. This is where book reviews are SO important.
If I see a book only has 2 or 3 reviews on it, I will click on each person's review, especially if the review is a short 2 or 3 liner and the review is generally 'generic' or 'vague'. When that happens, in my opinion, I believe the person who wrote that review is a friend, an associate, or is related to the author. Sure enough, when I click on the name of that person, they have written only '1' review in their entire history on Amazon.
What does this tell me? That I am most likely correct in my assumption that the reviewer's of that book IS a a friend, a business associate, or a family member who may not have even read the book. In this case, the author probably has not taken the time to request reviews from Book Reviewers/Bloggers and has taken the book directly to Amazon and put it on special first before requesting book reviews.
WHY would an author commit 'Russian Roulette' like this with their writing career, and why do I say it is that? Because there is SO much riding on the book reviews that particular author does NOT have when . . .
If you would like to read the rest of this article, please click on this link: http://www.lauriehere.blogspot.com/p/to-z-challengeblogging-april-2012.html OR click on the TAB above that say "Blogging from A to Z Challenge - April 2012".
PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT! I WOULD LOVE FEEDBACK especially on this article!
Thanks, and I'll see you tomorrow with the letter "R"!
Laurie
