Why I Choose Not To Post My Reviews At Amazon
By LawrenceA buddy of mine told me the other day that many book authors also write their book reviews directly at Amazon for the benefit of exposures. He thinks it is a good idea and suggested that I should give it a try. The short conversation turned into a lengthy discussion of posting reviews online in general that I think worth writing about.
The Amazon community is big and obviously many readers would read the reviews there to assist them in making their purchase decisions. As someone who reads all the time, I am sure if I post all my reviews there I will have presence in many trading books. The problem, however, is the ongoing discussion there that I have to deal with.
I don’t mind engaging in discussions about the books I have read and the reviews that I have written about them. The problem is that I would not have enough time to go through all the past reviews I posted to handle the discussions scattered everywhere. For a few reviews, I can probably handle that. For a dozen or more, it will become a very time consuming task.
The other concern is that my ebooks are not just available through Amazon. There are other online ebook retailers featuring my ebooks. Posting my reviews only at Amazon will make my readers who bought my work elsewhere not able to see my reviews.
The lazy way out is to centralize all the reviews here so that anyone interested in my research work will also get to read the reviews. It also makes it easier for me to engage in discussions on my reviews as I do not need to check on hundred different places.
Not the best solution but nonetheless a solution.
