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I've come to depend on royalties from my nonfiction books as part of my income. If I read something bad or buy something bad, I'll maybe leave a review saying so if it's made by a large company. But when I misunderstand the product, that's my fault.

My best selling book in a very competitive field dropped from 4.5 stars to 4 stars on Amazon after one person left a 1-star review because the book doesn't have maps (never said it did), another left a 1-star review because it's not an audiobook (really? just really?) and said he didn't even read it, and another left a 1-star review with 200 incoherent words encouraging me to take a literary risk and lamented the lack of pathos. It's a how-to book! It's not a memoir.

Just wish people would remember they're screwing with someone's livelihood before they decide to spout off.

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And not that I get any income worth counting for my kinky fiction, but to the reviewer who left one star on my short story anthology:

I was new at to writing fiction, and I'd agree these weren't very good. Certainly not up to my current standards.

But when you fault ABDL fiction for being "divorced from reality"...

Really? You were expecting reality? Is this what sex educators mean when they say it's important to teach young people that pornography is not real?

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2 hours ago, NateSean said:

Par for the course. Keep putting stuff out there and soon the one star ratings won't matter. 

 

Writing more books won’t change the rating of the one responsible for 75% of my sales, which is now a half star lower than the closest competitor. That gets fixed with positive reviews.

Now I have to spend more on advertising for a while to boost sales and get some more reviews.

 

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honestly, when I am going to buy something and I look at reviews - I will purposely read some 'bad' reviews to see what they say. Because these reviews aren't indicating much about your work, I would say for the most part, it shouldn't affect your sales. 

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If I see a story on Amazon I will first look whats it about and how long it is. Then if it maybe only have 2 stars I wont buy it. but if it has 3+ I will atleast consider it.

It was from Amazon I found Done adulting even if I read this site even as a non-member for years it was something I missed and I liked what I read about it on amazon and decided to start reading it!

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On 2/18/2020 at 10:21 AM, Alex Bridges said:

Writing more books won’t change the rating of the one responsible for 75% of my sales, which is now a half star lower than the closest competitor. 

 

 

It won't hurt your sales either. New books help sell the backlog. And if you were relying heavily on that book for income then yes, you were going to have to do more promotion anyway.

Even the most experienced bee keepers get stung. Bad reviewers are just something you'll have to get used to, especially if you're good at what you do.

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It sucks when bad reviews happen.  Sometimes people just don't like a story because of personal taste, no matter how well it's written.  For products, I'll read bad reviews and good reviews. I take bad reviews with a grain of salt- sometimes the poster sounds like they know what they're talking about (like they can clearly state the problem they had with the product. Such as "shirt was sized too small/ shirt runs small" etc and sometimes if it's a defective product they'll include pictures. Other times, the reviewer unintentionally reveals their own stupidity, and I discount their opinion. 

For fiction books, I read the "sneak peek/ peek inside" preview on Amazon. Sometimes a bad review is just out of personal taste, other times a bad review can be spot on.  Don't let a bad review or two get you down! It happens to even the best of authors. 

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I don’t understand why we need to rely on other peoples opinion to form our own. We know nothing about the reviewer and as they say ‘one mans meat ...’ I get pestered all the time to review this or that and I ignore them all. Just in the same way I ignore all reviews. One company I dealt with asked me why I did not review something and I told him that if you are confident in your product and it was good, then word would get around, I would tell my friends, who know me and therefore have some background in knowing how I came to that conclusion.

I do understand the dilemma in this internet age.

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I also got a 1-star review over a year ago because I initially released a book with the wrong manuscript. I fixed it as soon as Amazon would approve the new manuscript going live but someone still left that 1-star review about the wrong content.

I updated the manuscript again, changed it to be Revision 2 and added a line high in the description that identified the book content was corrected. The book hasn't sold very well but it has sold a few copies and has had pages read.

So, if it is something you can address at the beginning of the blurb, "Not an audiobook, not a map" kind of thing, they can't say they weren't warned.

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