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Book Publishing Mistake 7 - Believing Reviews will be Easy to Get

31 Dec 2022 · 1 min

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Julie Broad (YouTube, Dec 31, 2022) warns authors that obtaining book reviews is harder than many expect. She explains that roughly 25% of people who say they will write a review actually do, and of those 10–20% of reviews may be removed or blocked by Amazon. She frames hitting 100 reviews as a major milestone, 1,000 as significant, and views 10,000+ reviews as exceptional.

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Approximately 10–20%.

100 reviews (major milestone), 1,000 reviews (big), and 10,000+ reviews (exceptional).

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Number 7 believing that it Will be Easy to Get Reviews I know most of us know it's hard to get reviews, but every couple of weeks I get an email or talk with someone that says I'm not worried about getting reviews. I have a ton of people who will write reviews. They've already told me I never want to be the bubble burster because I want to encourage and support people. And yet I also feel like I should warn people how hard it is to get reviews. Hitting 100 reviews is a major milestone. Hitting 1,000, well, wow, that's big. And when I see books with 10,000 plus reviews, I'm in awe. The reality is that you can expect about 25% of the people who say they will write a review to actually do it. And of those you can expect probably 10 to 20% of them will have their review removed, blocked, or otherwise not allowed by Amazon. So if you have 100 people saying they will write a review, you can expect 25 will actually do it. And of those, at least two will be blocked, removed, or otherwise not allowed by Amazon. Maybe even more. If you're asking people Amazon is able to determine or or guests are friends or family.