On checking further, I discovered that there are now literally hundreds of sites offering paid book reviews on Amazon once again.
Even the worst scourge of paid book reviews, Fiverr, is back in business offering $5 Kindle ebook reviews.
I really thought that the John Locke episode a few years ago would have been the end of this dirty trade on Amazon. But sadly, apparently not.
As an author, I am totally against paid reviews, but in the real world of greed, there is no stopping the free market from doing what it does best, which is to exploit a market for every cent it is worth.
It took me less than ten minutes to find the following sites offering ‘verified’ paid Amazon book reviews.
Imagine what I could have discovered if I had spent a half an hour searching for these leeches!
Quite honestly, it makes me sick to the gut, with the feeling that writing is becoming a tarnished, corrupt and dishonest business, and one I would rather not be associated with.
I refuse to pay for book reviews, so let my books rot at the bottom of the pile. Literature? Morality? Honesty? Amazon? Pphhfft!
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