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Authors swapping reviews with each other violates Amazon’s TOS and its considered unethical by many readers. It’s a way of manipulating ratings and isn’t allowed on GR either.Any author who does this is a huge red flag. On the plus side, authors who swap reviews with each other usually have low sales so their books don’t find their ways into the hands of genuine readers.
Mellie wrote: "Authors swapping reviews with each other violates Amazon’s TOS and its considered unethical ..."I feel like an author could put another author's review in the section under the first author's book description, "From the publisher." But the reviewer should not mark a number of stars.
Mellie wrote: "Authors swapping reviews with each other violates Amazon’s TOS and its considered unethical by many readers. It’s a way of manipulating ratings and isn’t allowed on GR either.Any author who does ..."
Hi. I checked the platform, and it doesn’t mention anything about review swapping. It only describes reviewing books that are already in their library. You can pick any book and leave any review, and the author won’t even know who reviewed it. Basically, it works like a library of Amazon books where anyone can choose a title and submit a review
Jonny wrote: "I checked the platform, and it doesn’t mention anything about review swapping..."It’s literally in the first thread here and the first thing stated on the website. It’s for authors to review other authors. It also talks about them being verified reviews which is a huge red flag. That’s a common tactic adopted by such TOS violating services to skirt Amazon’s rules and to try and avoid detection.
Maybe instead of all these authors reviewing other authors they could sell books and get them in the hands of actual readers. But most of them couldn’t handle genuine reviews.
And I’m sure it’s pure coincidence that you just joined Goodreads to defend the author review swapping site.
Stella wrote: "Hi everyone,I recently came across the free Revvue platform, which has over 600 authors and bookstagrammers. Each week, you can receive 2 verified Amazon + Goodreads reviews for free.
To join:
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Very good tip, Stella - thank you. I really need some reviews myself, so I'll get cracking with writing reviews myself.
Best regards
Arnar

I recently came across the free Revvue platform, which has over 600 authors and bookstagrammers. Each week, you can receive 2 verified Amazon + Goodreads reviews for free.
To join:
1) Write honest reviews (no fake or AI-generated content).
2) Review other authors — if you don’t review, no one reviews yours.
The best part is that there are no review swaps. You can review any book and rate it honestly without the author even knowing, so everything stays fully within Amazon’s rules and guidelines.
Here’s my invitation link to get started: https://revvue.co/?ref=B09GHVX4Q8