Posted on 04/09/2021 7:19:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
As an author, I have a love-hate relationship with Amazon. In the past, Amazon has inexplicably purged reviews from conservative books, including my own, without explanation.
My book, The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama, is routinely targeted by the Left for bogus negative reviews. Roughly 25 percent of the book’s reviews have always been bogus one-star reviews that are not tagged as a “verified purchase” that simply accuse me of being racist, claim the book is poorly researched (it has over 1,000 endnotes), or involve some other attack. Since its original publication in 2016, the percentage of these bogus reviews appears virtually unchanged.
I’ve made many complaints to Amazon over the years for the incredible number of undeniably bogus reviews that make it through the company’s screening process.
So, I was incredibly shocked to discover that while Amazon took no interest in protecting my book from bogus reviews, that it has chosen to protect others.
On Wednesday, PJ Media reported that A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal, a best-selling daily devotional, contained a prayer called, “Prayer of a Weary Black Woman” that asks God to “help me to hate white people.”
If you thought you could march over to Amazon and give the book a bad review, don’t bother. When you try to review the book, the following notice appears:
Amazon has noticed unusual reviewing activity on this product. Due to this activity, we have limited this product to verified purchase reviews.
Wow, really? Amazon has noticed “unusual reviewing activity” on the book?
But it gets better. In an attempt to determine if this was an isolated incident, I decided to see what would happen if I attempted to post reviews on other books.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
should we be surprised! We are turning into a communist country!
All book reviews should be limited to verified purchases. Fair is fair.
Reviews and comments at many sites have gotten out of control from Left Right and Middle.
I suppose thats why many news outlets no longer allow them.
Now publishing companies.
If ya didnt read it how can you review it ?
Makes sense.
I wonder if Bezos realizes that Biden ran on the idea that ALL JOBS IN THE USA should be UNION JOBS????
EVERY SINGLE JOB
^ Snakehead
I made my decision that I will NOT read Ukraine Biden’s book, when I first heard he was writing it.
“he was writing it.”
LOL!
Why anyone uses Amazon has long been beyond the pale. Many on FR are happy to keep them in business.
Eh?
Amazon is doing their part to make sure you can NOT-SEE the bad reviews?
Who’da thunk it?
(tagline)
Now that's just crazy talk!
“The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama”
With that title you jumped into battlefield. You caught the attention of the censors as well as, you certainly hope, potential readers.
I think Amazon should publish only verified-purchase reviews.
Does Amazon allow the person browsing to choose to see only verified reviews? How does Amazon determine verified reviews?
Amazon allows anybody to grade user reviews.
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