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Maybe your teacher friend can ask the student's permission and then post it herself. Otherwise it would be hard to avoid the "appearance of impropriety," no matter how many disclaimers you put in.
I would say as long as you get his permission it would be okay.
Masha wrote: "Maybe your teacher friend can ask the student's permission and then post it herself. Otherwise it would be hard to avoid the "appearance of impropriety," no matter how many disclaimers you put in."That's a good idea. I do worry that no matter how I phrase it, someone is going to think I just wrote the review myself and now I'm trying to pass it off as someone else's.
The only problem I could see is that my teacher friend tries hard to keep her online identity separate from her professional one (for obvious reasons given how many of her students are on Facebook, etc.). That might be a sticking point for her, but I can always ask.
Does the student's parents have an account? Or does the teaccher?
Amazon accounts are wicked easy to create. She could just create a new account with a random email addy if she were very concerned about the difference.In this day and age she should have a few different accounts running anyways between "Teacher self" and "Private self."
I totally agree with asking the teacher to post it unless the student's parents have an account. But it's a review I would definitely pursue.
Teacher friend does have an account, but she checked with the reviewer/student and he was ok with me posting it. In fact, he was pretty enthusiastic about it. I got the feeling she didn't want to get in the middle.I went ahead and posted it under my account with the disclaimer that it wasn't my review, but I gave it a second thought and just decided to remove it. The review is nice, but after looking at it a little harder, I don't think it's going to sway anyone's buying decision. I'll let other reviewers carry the torch or let it sputter out, whichever the case may be.
Thanks for the responses, everyone.
HAHAHA I know a concept site called www.bibliokleptomaniac.wordpress.com where my friend, the owner, would love it if you will intentionally plagiarize and take credit of another person's review of a book. Try it it is fun. It was just published yesterday but it is not that much yet. or join the group - bibliokleptomaniac here on goodreads
Scott, I had out-of-country reviewers here on Goodreads with no Amazon accounts. I snipped images of them and posted them on Amazon where you can place images, and Amazon added text versions, calling them editorial reviews.
Mary wrote: "Scott, I had out-of-country reviewers here on Goodreads with no Amazon accounts. I snipped images of them and posted them on Amazon where you can place images, and Amazon added text versions, calli..."that is a good tip. I have some fans in other sites with no Goodreads too.
I look forward to hearing what response you get from posting the review, Scott. Personally, any book I see with a review posted by the author (regardless of who the review is attributed to) is not going to get my further attention. It just doesn't sit right with me.
Saying that, I have about 30 reviews from other people that I could post under my name... but I won't do it.
Do let us know if it works out OK or if you get bad feedback.
Hi Greg,As indicated above, I posted the review but removed it shortly thereafter. It just wasn't sitting right, and I don't think it was really going to sway a reader's decision one way or another. It was maybe a bit too glowing, and not critical in any way. One of those reviews that makes you feel good as a writer, but doesn't do much for others.
Scott
Hi Scott.I missed that you had removed the review. Thanks for letting us know.
On your Amazon, link to your blog and put it there, so you can link your reviews from Play or goodreads etc.
I've got a question which really comes down to opinion, I think, unless there's some specific rule against doing this.
I gave some of my books to a high school teacher friend of mine because she said she had students who really liked the genre I write in (fantasy). Cool, I thought. Happy to hand over some books. Hope they like them.
One of the students wrote a glowing review of which he was not able to post on Amazon b/c he doesn't have an account (he's only 15).
The question is this: If I post the review, clearly stating that it isn't my review but someone who isn't able to, etc., is that going to break the "don't review your own books" rule?
I know this can be a touchy subject for some, so just thought I'd run by you all and get your thoughts.
Not even 100% sure I'd do it at this point, but I hate to have a good review go to waste.
Thanks!