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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Reviews on Amazon Missing

I like to write book reviews. With the lack of quality control on self-published books, reviews are important to the readers. Good or bad, reviews are also important to authors.

An author friend brought to my attention that a few of her reviews disappeared. When she brought it up to Amazon, they said the reviewer must have removed it. I was one of the reviewers with the mysterious, disappearing review and I did not remove it. Where is it?

No clue. Amazon asked me to provide the URL to the review, but I don't have that information. So, nothing got done.

I'm writing this to alert you in case this is a problem across the board. If you are published, are your reviews all still there? If you write reviews, see any missing?

4 comments:

  1. Tanya ReimerNovember 9, 2012 at 5:53 PM

    How I understood it, Amazon removed reviews by fellow Amazon authors.

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  2. UnknownNovember 9, 2012 at 7:06 PM

    I feel like I have heard more than enough complaints regarding any kind of amazon security or customer service. They're kinda sketchy. :/

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  3. UnknownNovember 9, 2012 at 7:47 PM

    They have removed reviews randomly. Especially if the reviews are by people who are Amazon authors themselves.

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  4. Erin Kane SpockNovember 15, 2012 at 9:26 AM

    Thanks for the feedback. I'm not an Amazon author, so I have no idea why they'd remove my reviews. It must be because they were horribly, unspeakably obscene -- because that's how I roll. Or not.

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