Bestselling author on Amazon wrote favorable reviews of his books under a pseudonym. He was caught, but it turns out that many more such work
How to attack other writers?
One of today's most talented writers. Or so he thinks of himself. Er. J. Allori
Detective writer Jeremy Danz dug and investigated following a tip received from a member. Last Friday revealed the actions of Roger John Allori series of tweets on Twitter. He focused on two Amazon users, Nicodemus Jones and Jelly Bean. Danz noticed that two users wrote a five-star reviews on all the books of Allori. Jelly wrote criticizing the "angels": "AR. J. Allori is one of today's most talented writers."
Nicodemus and also share a dislike of the book Dark Blood Stuart McBride, who controls them fatal star. Jelly the hint of criticism that the old McBride tells another, and Jones wrote that he was "one more endless parade of police procedurals look outdated (same old, same old) flooding the UK." Danz noted that gelatin used the phrase "same old, same old".
During the hearing on the audit of Nicodemus Jones, Allori suddenly joined the conversation under the name, noticed Danz. He also noticed that Jones had signed some announcements named Roger (Allori's first name), and shared details about the book that only a writer or associates can know, like when will his audio version. One of the discussions was Allori particularly sloppy and wrote under the pseudonym Jones won the "quiet belief in angels." Five days after publication, deleted reviews of jelly between and Nicodemus Jones.
"I've never read a book by Allori, once shook his hand, this is not a personal attack, I'm not a cop ethics of the world," concluded Danz Twitter. "Beautify yourself is pathetic. Attacking like other writers? It does not matter to me, it does not matter who the defender of it." He noted that having audits of Allori / from / Jones on the books, and an interview with the Daily Telegraph said: "I firmly believe that co-writers should not write reviews about 'amazing genius of themselves and mess on the work of writers industrious without openly declare who they are ".
Jeremy Danz reveals the Allori Twitter
$ 100 for a book review
Allori, come to GettingBook, do you have a price on Auditing
Mimics some reviews. Amazon
Independent reviews are unique alias Ellroy. "He's certainly not alone.'s Very common," he told Guardian writer Mark Bilnighm, was subjected to vicious Nicodemus Jones and then a personal apology Ellroy. "What was most striking about the latest discoveries in this matter until now, most of us assumed that the people who do such things are writers self-published books removed and no other marketing methods. Recent discoveries show that it is not the case, which is very worrying."
There is also a person who sells fake reviews. The New York Times last month said Todd Rudd, Hereford, employee marketing department of a company that provided services to self-published writers, whose job was PR man books institutionalized media and bloggers write about reviews. Struggling to push his media saturation writers similar proposals until one day polishing his idea, and two years ago opened the site GettingBookm. site offered writers reviews online on the books for $ 100 review book. writers approached him demanding another product - a series of reviews from several different writers, and Rudd, Hereford launched the new product, 20 reviews $ 500 or 50 reviews $ 1000, with reviews written by writers cheap Brad Hereford traced through the network.
John Locke, begun in 2009 and took ten self-published digital books, mostly thrillers about CIA agent, worked with GettingBookReviews.com to promote them. Rudd, Hereford asked the workers of the words he rented a mission to purchase the digital book of Luke which they write, and costs one dollar to their criticism appears with a sign indicating the visitor bought the book, which will contribute to reliability. Luke ordered a total of three hundred reviews.
However, following complaints about the writer's public service GettingBook published on consumerism, Amazon erased some of his criticisms, Google ceased to publish his campaigns and eventually he closed the business, putting him 28 thousand dollars a month, for a total issued 4,500 Reviews. Today he runs a service that for $ 100 he writes in a blog and twitters to 33 thousand consecutive school, and ask them to write blogs and Amazon reviews, without charge.
"He could not succeed without the co-perpetrating fraud in the Amazon"
"How I sold a million digital books in five months"
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requires that indicate if any of commercial relations between the authors of reviews online and the subjects of criticism, but the rule is not enforced. The policy of Amazon and other similar sites prohibits payment reviews, and the rule is not strictly enforced. "Luke could not succeed in his fraud without complicity from Amazon," wrote blogger and author Robert Cruise. "Amazon has access to heaps of information that is not accessible to the consumer (such as IP addresses [unique identifying address end device connected to a network, A"k] of visitors and their purchase history), that can help them identify and block fraudulent reviews visitors with a history of fraud . Even a sudden burst of reviews (as happened with Luke) had to raise red flags in Seattle [where the headquarters Amazon, A"k]. Simply no excuse for allowing Luke Amazon get away with such tricks. "
Not only did they let him out, they even encourage it: June 2011 Amazon released a press release captioned the self-published writer Luke first joined the Kindle Million Club, "that is sold over one million copies of digital books e-book from Amazon. The only book of his non-fiction called "How I sold a million digital books in five months."
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