Wow! I wondered why a notable "Best Selling" author in that circle of publishing that targets a specific denomination took down the resounding review of Never Ceese they left on Amazon. It had been up for nearly two years.
Not only do I wonder that, I also wonder HOW they did it.
I thought it was because perhaps they were done doing reviews but I just learned that this isn't the case at all. They just posted a new one.
How then? I can't even get Amazon to remove a 1 star review of a book that isn't even published anymore and no longer exists!!!!!
So how does this author get to remove a resounding review?
Hey Amazon!!!! What gives? Playing favorites again? Of course they are. This novelist scribes for one of those "bigger publishers" just in that targeted "Christian" market. That's how they earned the title "best-selling" novelists.
Oh well. So goes life.
Congrats Amazon! I'd shake your hand only I don't want to get it all slimy and stuff!!!
Oh and this author also put my name in the back of one of their books in a list of acknowledgements: those who helped support their writing. I was neither asked if my name could be put there nor do I support their writing as at the time they wrote for a large Christian publisher, Thomas Nelson, who openly discriminates against writers who don't write for their targeted audience of Christians.
Now, thanks to my name being there, my books show up with theirs wherever they're listed on-line!!!! ARGHHHHH!
The review was grand. There was no reason for the review to be pulled. Just another example of larger publisher/author bullying as far as I'm concerned. And Amazon never responds to small publishers or authors wishes or else they still wouldn't be selling a book of mine that they can't legally get and doing so for retail. Good LORD!!!
ReplyDeleteForever Richard IS going to be republished by Black Bed Sheet Books. Just tweaking it a bit before I send it off to the publisher.
Well, that's what I'm saying - to be fair, it probably wasn't pulled, it was probably deleted by the reviewer. You need to address that with the reviewer - I don't think Amazon itself had anything to do with it.
ReplyDeleteYou still haven't been able to clear that mess up with them, huh - I'm so sorry about that. It makes it tough for an independent when that sort of thing happens.
LOL No I can't seem to make Amazon do what's legal. HA! After like 50 emails I stopped. I threaten them with a lawsuit but that's sort of superfluous. Like suing B&N for not paying me for the books I sold at their store during a booksigning. Hardly worth the ummm maybe $40.00 I made.
ReplyDeleteAnd no, I shouldn't have to take it up with the reviewer as Amazon has told me in the past NO review comes down EVER. That's the excuse they use for not removing a 1 star review that one version of my book acquired due to their promoting in to a group I didn't choose (for the very reason it earned that 1 star. The book doesn't even exist and yet the review stays. UGH!
Well sure they were lying or rather making it up as they go along. Sure the reviewer removed it. The very reviewer/slash author who put my name in their book as supporting them in their writing novels for publishers who discriminate against authors like me without even asking me. Now my name shows up with their work. How lovely. I could really care less that they decided they no longer wanted the review up there. And as far as Amazon and their hmmm . . . interesting mode of operations, I could really care less about that either. Just that I'm always a little peeved when folks get away with operating above the law. But I think that's called "good business" these days. ;) HA!
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