Gathering feedback from Facebook groups and through Facebook ads, compensating readers for your book purchase, and, hopefully, converting that into Amazon reviews is a good strategy. But even the previous sentence sounds a bit complicated. Not to mention actually building a system for corresponding with potential readers, tracking who is at what stage, and tracking compensation (both to prove to Amazon that the reader received only compensation and not a reward, and for tax accounting purposes). What are your thoughts on the topic? Do you use such a system? If yes, how do you organize it?

Having read a few different instances of authors having their accounts banned from KDP, I’d be interested hear all your opinions on whether removing /unpublishing a title that has multiple non verified reviews from Amazon, in case in the future it flags as dubious and potentially results in account suspension or banning?

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Last month, I saw increasing evidence that the November and December review sweep could be more than just a campaign. In very simple words, probably every book has gathered reviews in a non-organic manner in the crosshairs of Amazon's bots. Obviously, Amazon is prioritizing marketplace integrity and authentic reader feedback. This has led to increased scrutiny of practices like certain ARC teams, bulk review solicitation, and "book pulsing," as these may deviate from "organic" review rates. If you were a member of Amazon's marketplace integrity team and you saw a book, published two weeks ago, with 50 reviews. It's not J. K. Rowling's book, nor even Alex Hormozi's. Can you believe they're genuine, unsolicited reviews? How PROBABLE is it that it's just a regular, but lucky book? So, it seems every book with an atypical number or velocity of reviews could now be a target. We know that on Amazon, 1-2% of sales result in reviews. This means that for every 100 books sold, you could get 1-2 reviews. If a book has 20 sales and 17 reviews, is it really probable? I remember times when we could stuff keywords in white text on a white background, and it worked. After some time, Google penalized it. Okay, let's add the right proportion of keywords to the text, but don't worry about text flow for human readers. After some time, Google penalized it. Amazon: add major keywords to the title, subtitle, and seven keyword fields whenever possible. It worked until it didn't. "If your book has fewer than 50 reviews, do not even try to promote it." Maybe it still works, but maybe tomorrow you will read the "Account Suspended for Review Manipulation" email. What are your thoughts on this?

As you probably know, I published the book I have been working on for the last few months this week. For me, primarily, it is not a book for earning royalties, but a guide to a part of the new economy emerging right before our eyes. In some way, it's a trial balloon to test whether there is a space for such a type of book on the market. As you can imagine, I would be happy to get feedback from the target audience, and luckily enough, the target audience is you. If you want to give your input and you have Amazon Prime for free delivery, I would be more than happy to cover the cost of the book via PayPal. Shoot me a message if you're down to it. Why don't I just publish the link? It's for the next few weeks. Today, I want to get private feedback to understand whether it was worth it.