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.😃

Quick service update from our side! Over the last days, we’ve been able to verify most assignments in less than 48 hours, and in many cases within 24 hours. So if you’re actively completing assignments, we recommend checking your BookVillage account at least once per day to see whether new promotions have become available for you to activate. We’re also noticing that several users are accumulating activatable promotions without using them. My recommendation is to don’t wait too long before activating them. BookVillage works much better when authors post and receive reviews consistently every week, instead of staying inactive for a while and then trying to receive too many reviews in a short period of time. A steady rhythm is better for the system, better for your books, and also safer from an Amazon review-spacing perspective. So if you already have promotions available, take a look at your account and activate the ones that make sense for your current strategy. The goal is to build a consistent weekly flow of honest reviews, with healthier spacing and better long-term stability for everyone in the Village.

Many of you, because of what happened in the past on other platforms or previous experiences with Amazon, started believing that the main problem was: • the content of the review • the writing style • or the star rating you give But in reality, this was never the real issue. The real problem has always been suspicious reviewer behavior and fake reviewer accounts. We’re talking about accounts created almost exclusively to post reviews, with little or no real customer activity behind them. And thankfully, Amazon has now become very good at identifying these patterns. Unfortunately, this led many people to think that posting a review is somehow like taking a university exam. But it’s not. A review is simply a review. You do not need to read every single page of a book to have an opinion about it. Maybe you already know the topic well and focus only on the sections that interest you most.That is perfectly normal behavior. And another thing that honestly surprises me is when some users believe they should intentionally post mediocre or negative ratings to “look authentic,” almost like they are judges on MasterChef. Especially when some of the same people complain about receiving a single slightly negative review themselves. BookVillage is built around mutual support. If you truly dislike a book, simply avoid reviewing it or contact us privately instead of damaging the author publicly on Amazon. If I look at my own Amazon account, my lifetime review average is around 4.6 stars and I’ve never had any issue. Why? Because the account is authentic and behaves like a real customer account. On the other hand, when Amazon repeatedly removes reviews from an account, the problem is usually not the rating itself. The problem is that Amazon detects suspicious behavior patterns, especially on accounts created mainly for reviewing ebooks and relying too on non-verified reviews. There are no magic tricks. Posting negative reviews instead of 5-star reviews does not “protect” your account.

Many of you have asked how the promotion system inside BookVillage actually works and why sometimes you may still have “economic credit” available while being temporarily unable to activate additional promotions. This post is extremely important because understanding this logic is the key to understanding why BookVillage is designed to remain stable long term, unlike many other platforms. When you click on “Let’s Get Promoted,” you can immediately see which promotions you are currently able to activate. Alternatively, you can directly check the panel in the top-right section of your dashboard, where all the promotion types currently available to you are displayed in real time. Users who previously used other platforms already know how those systems usually work: The number of reviews you can receive is tied almost exclusively to the “value” of the reviews you posted. At first, this sounds logical. But over time, these systems inevitably create a structural problem. After months of heavy usage, users start accumulating huge amounts of credits or coins while simultaneously finding it harder and harder to actually receive reviews, especially higher-value ones. Why does this happen? Because those systems allow users to receive more total reviews than the number they actually posted. And any platform that wants to survive long term must always maintain an approximate balance between: • total reviews posted • total reviews received Otherwise, mathematically, the system eventually collapses. If a user posts one $2.99 review and the system allows them to receive three $0.99 reviews in return, or even two, you are still creating an imbalance over time. And anyone with even basic economic knowledge knows that users naturally optimize for maximum personal advantage. This is exactly why BookVillage works differently. Inside BookVillage, the number of promotions you can activate is determined by TWO separate values working together. 1️⃣ The Economic Value Assigned to Each Review Type

We have finally completed the full analysis regarding everything that happened over the last weeks with Amazon review moderation and removals. This analysis required days of extremely intense work because we didn’t want to rely on assumptions or isolated cases. We analyzed: • the structure and purchase history of the Amazon accounts used by our users • reviewer behavior patterns and review frequency • the types of reviews being posted • and how all of this correlated with the type and frequency of reviews received by authors on their books And now we are finally able to provide much clearer conclusions. And honestly, the results are better than we expected. First of all, all the recommendations we shared previously remain absolutely valid. So: • do not post more than one review within less than 36 hours • ideally, allow 48 hours between reviews whenever possible But we also discovered something very important. After analyzing all the affected cases, it became extremely clear that the more an Amazon account behaves like a real customer account, especially through frequent physical product purchases, the more tolerance Amazon seems to allow toward occasional unverified review activity. On the other hand, when an Amazon account was created mainly for posting reviews, or shows very little real activity besides ebook purchases and reviews, the problems appear almost exclusively when posting: • Free Promo reviews • Kindle Unlimited reviews • Standard Unverified reviews So if you created an Amazon account mainly to participate in BookVillage, my recommendation is very simple: Use that account in the same marketplace where you can also make real physical purchases. For example, many users live in the UK but choose to post reviews mainly on Amazon.com. In most cases, you will likely have a much stronger trust score posting directly on Amazon.co.uk, because that is where your real customer activity naturally happens. However, if you still want to continue posting reviews on a marketplace where your activity consists mostly of ebook purchases and reviews, then my recommendation is equally clear: