Authors should be aware
Posted: July 27, 2024 Filed under: AI Technology, Book Review, Book Sales, Books, Review | Tags: Amazon, Book Reviews, Writing to be Read 8 CommentsAs authors, we should be aware of many common practices of Amazon that affect our books. In this post by Stevie Turner, she points out a new development on Amazon which I find quite alarming.
I work hard to get reviews for my books, and still get only a few, but I am constantly working toward that goal. If Stevie is correct, and Amazon is now summarizing our reviews for us what does that mean to we authors? I often use the reviews I do get in promoting efforts. Do our actual reviews disappear so that readers will not longer see the actual reviewers words?
As a reviewer, I also find this alarming. If my actual words are never seen by potential reader, then does that not inhibit the power of my influence and devalue what I do?
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The reviews by readers stay where they are. The AI is just paraphrasing from them. Not a fan of AI at all, but this introduction of it on the page doesn’t seem to be too invasive from what I’ve seen so far.. Hope that reassures.
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Thank you, Judith. This is good to know, as I wasn’t aware of this new practice. So do you think this will be beneficial to authors, then?
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I think it will be up to us if we use it as a comment on the various social media outlets. I’ve used a couple of them to share. If it’s positive no harm done, and, as far as I’ve seen they’re only there if positive. So, yes, could be useful, Kayelynne. As with all AI, use with caution. All the best.😊
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That definitely makes me feel better about the whole thing. Thanks for your input on this, Judith. ☺️
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The summaries are not replacing the reviews. Personally, I ignore them.
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Thanks Loretta. ☺️ Maybe it’s a good thing. With Amazon you can never be sure. I am still arguing with them that my P.O.D. books cannot be ‘out of stock’, and they raise the prices iny print books so high no one would buy them. I believe it is their way of showing their disapproval because I publish wide, instead of exclusive. Never-the-less, I’m glad my book income is not all in Amazon’s basket.
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Thanks for sharing this post, Kaye.
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