📢 BookVillage Review Stability Update – May 18 (Final Update) · BookVillage

📢 BookVillage Review Stability Update – May 18 (Final Update)

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:

Completely avoid every type of review that is not a Verified Paid Purchase review.

If you follow these rules together with all the previous guidelines we explained, the percentage of removed reviews and accounts losing review privileges becomes extremely low.

We are genuinely talking about isolated individual cases.

BookVillage is your ally.

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📢 BookVillage Review Stability Update – May 18 (Final Update)