Amazon Erases Book Reviews

[Marilyn]

Can anyone shed light on why Amazon is deleting book reviews. I had one from Reader Views a first-class outfit, that was deleted with no notification to me.

[Jenn]

I read somewhere on Amazon last week (one of the forums, can't recall which, I apologize) that it's because they believe them to be from paid reviewers. Folks were complaining they were missing reviews, and the authors were indicating that they hadn't actually paid for the reviews, but that it was possible their reviewers did do paid reviews for others.