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That's different then. I took it to mean a reviewing fee.
David, according to the latest figures:The average spend per customer on Amazon.com is $500 per year.
This increases to $1200 for the 63million people using Amazon Prime.
Amazon report that they have 310million active customers.
I'm not sure how much the new rule will impact reviews, but Amazon will have done extensive analysis before introducing it.
http://fortune.com/2016/07/11/amazon-...
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M.P. wrote: "https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom...Eligibility
To post Customer Reviews or Customer Answers, post on Customer Discussion Forums, or submit content to followers, ..."
I believe it's now also applicable to Amazon.UK
I've never bought anything on .com and my review from yesterday is there. I've spent lots and lots and lots on .co.uk, though :)
It's your account, the same sign-in for both, Joo. My dot com reviews go through without a sale too. People are getting agitated about this but for the vast majority of us, nothing's changed.
There's a thread somewhere on Goodreads which says this does not apply to books. I think! Or am I confused again? Information overload...
I gather from earlier exchanges that 'Review Swapping' is a controversial subject; some people are vehemently opposed to it. Thus, unsolicited review swap requests have the potential to cause offence, even if inspection of someone's Goodreads shelf may indicate a predisposition to read the proposed material.In an attempt to address this problem, I have configured an Azerbaijani Computer Dating System to match up books for 'Mutual Beta-Readership' (a nod to the circumstances in which a 'Review Swap' might be in breach of Amazon's Terms of Service).
DME's Indies takes you to a site where you can enter book ASIN's for matching with other submitted ASIN's, and where you can search for and communicate with the people who registered other ASIN's.
The ASIN is validated with Amazon.com. In order to be able to do this, I had to register the site as an Amazon Affiliate, so you will see buy links and banner adverts. Your ad-blocker will block the banners, but not the buy links.
When the software is validating the ASIN with Amazon, it downloads the categories, which are then decomposed into keywords that are searchable. The keyword list is derived from the Book Industry Study Group BISAC codes, which Amazon claim to be the basis for their categories.
The blurb will be downloaded as well if Amazon choose to provide it. Until yesterday, they did, today they don't. Who knows what tomorrow will bring ... But you can edit it all anyway.
At the moment there is one book (mine) so discussion of matching is rather academic, but if there were to be lots of them, matching can be based on matching up input and sought BISAC keywords, and page count ranges (to get a reasonably fair effort split).
Courtesy of the underlying Computer Dating functionality, messages can be exchanged without revealing contact details, you can write further notes and comments, 'rate' books, and upload further images.
The individual books are the analogues of the computer daters, so if you register multiple books, you can only sign in as one of them at a time. However, you can use the same e-Mail address for all of them.
At the moment, the site design is old-fashioned rather than responsive, and you need to permit the site to open pop-up windows for the message functionality to work. I haven't tried using mobile devices, but having read through the code I can see, for example, that there are check boxes where the labels aren't HTML labels, so selecting them with your finger on a touch sensitive device could be a bit of a cuss. Your mileage may vary.
There's a feedback link at the bottom of each page, so if you spot references to eye-colour, gender, sexual orientation, age etc. etc., please use it to notify me! Likewise, anywhere it tells you that you don't have privileges to do something, or need to buy credits. Bugs (which will likely cause program code to appear on the screen) are also of interest.
Finally, any and all suggestions, constructive or otherwise, are most welcome.
I'm going to re-post this on the other thread that discussed these matters recently as well. Apologies in advance if that looks like spamming.
My reviews are going through fine for £1.99 or 99p purchases. It's been discussed in bookish places for some while and hasn't affected book reviewers.