Hi everyone, I am creating this post for the sole purpose of sharing some genuine feedback which I have whenever I rate a book 4 or less stars but I have noticed that I still get to see lots of such books. I would encourage everyone in th community to share their perspective and reasons so that others can fix those problems even before they ask for review on the platform. And let me be honest about it, if I am paying for a book and it genuinely upsets me, and I leave a four star even though I care about the book less than the real customer, you should consider this. I also believe many people feel the same. So let's use this for those insights and try to bring overall ratings of everyone to higher end.😃

Over the last weeks, we’ve been working literally day and night to better understand the recent review removals happening across Amazon. And I want to share something important with you: We have already identified new behavioral patterns that appear to be strongly connected to review removals, and we’ve already started implementing additional controls and monitoring systems inside BookVillage to minimize these risks even further. As I’ve said before, the most important factor overall remains the purchase history and long-term behavior of the Amazon account being used. A healthy Amazon account with a real purchase history behaves very differently from an account used almost exclusively for reviews. But beyond that, another factor appears to be involved in roughly half of the review removal cases we analyzed: ⚠️ When the same reader posts more than one review within less than two days. And similarly: ⚠️ When the same author receives multiple reviews on the same book inside the same short timeframe, even when those reviews come from different Amazon marketplaces. This is one of the reasons why inside BookVillage we constantly insist on naturally spacing reviews over time instead of concentrating them aggressively. Today we also noticed something very unusual on some Amazon accounts. In some cases, many previously posted reviews disappeared simultaneously, including reviews completely unrelated to books. And interestingly, most of the removed reviews seem to have been originally posted before April 2026. At the moment, we do not yet know whether this is a temporary Amazon bug or a broader review cleanup update. The accounts involved still continue functioning normally and many of them actually have strong purchase histories and otherwise healthy behavior patterns. This is important to understand: This issue is NOT something limited to BookVillage. It is currently affecting the entire Amazon ecosystem and every review acquisition strategy, including Amazon FBA product sellers.

Adriano, thanks so much for building such an awesome platform and community. Hi, I'm Mike, and I started publishing on Amazon about a year ago. I started with unique word search challenges, and I've since moved into chapter books for kids In the science niche. Early on in my journey, I had a book which had half its reviews stripped and then was eventually blocked for "review manipulation". It seems to me that the primary issue was getting too many reviews on the Kindle free promotion. That was a significant setback to me, but I persevered and published four more books since then. Given that experience, I'm quite conservative with using online review platforms, but I use Book Bounty and Book Reverb to slowly build reviews over time. I only do one Book Bounty review per week and no more than ten Book Reverb reviews per week. Outside of that, I make sure I have QR codes in my book that go direct to the review page, although I think the review rate is something like one or two out of a hundred, which is obviously pretty abysmal. I'm excited to test this platform, but I am very curious how you are ensuring authors don't get review swaps. My understanding is that sites like Book Reverb and Book Bounty ensure that no swaps happen, but Amazon seems to even be cracking down on review rings (i.e., person A reviews person B, person B reviews person C, and person C reviews person A). One of my concerns with smaller platforms like this one is that those sorts of triangles are highly likely with only a small pool of reviewers. Anyway, glad to be here and looking forward to testing out the platform for at least a month or two.

We’ve just added the BookVillage University inside the Classroom section of the community. This is the official training program where I walk you through exactly how to use BookVillage the right way, from the initial setup all the way to promotions, assignments, and long-term strategy. Inside the University, you’ll find: • A complete overview of the platform • Step-by-step guidance on how to use every section • A deep dive into the best types of reviews to receive • A full lesson on how to use your Amazon account safely over time 👉 You can access it now inside the Classroom section Let me know what you think once you go through it!