If you are using BookVillage seriously, there are two lessons inside the BookVillage University that you absolutely should not skip: ⭐ Lesson 5 – Promotions & Best Review Types ⭐ Lesson 7 – Using Your Amazon Account Safely In the future, these may even become mandatory modules before accessing certain platform functions. Why? Because one of the biggest mistakes people make is assuming that getting and posting reviews is “simple” and that they already understand everything. In reality, there are small details that can make a massive difference over the long term. A few examples from Lesson 5: • Reviews should be naturally diluted over time.Avoid receiving too many reviews too close together. Ideally, let at least a couple of days pass between one review and the next. • Personally, I strongly discourage enrolling your books in KDP Select.This also means avoiding making your books available through Kindle Unlimited if your goal is maximum long-term review stability. • Standard Unverified reviews should remain only a small percentage of your total review profile.And when possible, I recommend receiving them on paperback versions rather than Kindle versions. And regarding Lesson 7: Please follow the recommendations carefully. Over the last days, we have already started increasing the level of controls and monitoring across all BookVillage users because I am obsessed with understanding exactly how to minimize Amazon-related problems even further. At the moment, removals still represent a very small percentage of the total activity inside BookVillage. I expected to find far more removed reviews than we actually did. But here is the key point people often fail to understand: Sometimes it only takes a few Amazon reviewer accounts getting banned for all the reviews posted from those accounts to disappear at once.

We’ve been able to increase the capacity of our Reader Assistant Service, and a few new slots are now available. This is especially important for those of you who contacted us a few weeks ago and were added to the waitlist because there were no available spots at the time. The service has been very well received by the members already using it, and we’re happy to open it again to more BookVillage users who want to save time by delegating their assignment workflow safely. The Reader Assistant Service helps you delegate the manual work behind your assignments, so you can keep completing assignments consistently, accumulate active promotions, and use them for your books, without relying on random Virtual Assistants or risky outside services. A key part of this service is that each Reader Assistant works with one BookVillage user only. This is not a mass automated system, and it is not a pool of random freelancers shared across multiple users. The service is intentionally structured this way so the workflow can remain more organized, more consistent, and easier to supervise. That is also why availability is limited. We do not plan to scale this service beyond a controlled level. Quality, supervision, and safety matter more than accepting everyone. So if you want to use the service, please don’t wait too long. New slots are available now, but they will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. You can read the full explanation here: 👉 Click Here to Read the Full Reader Assistant Service Guide To request a slot, email us at: [email protected] Use this subject line: READER ASSISTANT SERVICE If you were previously added to the waitlist, or if you already know you want to delegate your assignments safely, this is the right moment to contact us. BookVillage is your ally.

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:

Every single day that passes, we are accumulating more and more data about how Amazon’s moderation systems are behaving after the recent updates introduced around April 2026. Some of you may have already noticed that assignment and promotion verifications are currently taking longer than usual before moving from “Completed” to “Verified.” This is intentional. We decided to make an extra effort and gradually contact our users one by one to verify whether their Amazon accounts are actually being used in a healthy and sustainable way. It’s important to clarify something: Until March 2026, virtually everything we recommended was working extremely well. The problem is that starting from April, after analyzing the enormous amount of internal data we have inside BookVillage, a very clear pattern emerged. Some types of Amazon accounts that previously behaved perfectly fine are now suddenly experiencing much higher moderation and review removal rates. We are specifically talking about accounts created mainly to post ebook reviews on a marketplace different from the one where the user normally makes physical purchases. For example: A user lives and shops physically on one Amazon marketplace, but creates or uses another marketplace almost exclusively for ebook reviewing activity. Even when these users behaved correctly: • not posting too many reviews per week • using mostly verified purchase reviews • spacing reviews reasonably well Amazon now appears to tolerate these account structures much less than before. Because of this, these types of accounts will no longer pass our new verification standards inside BookVillage. Amazon accounts must now show real and natural purchasing behavior. And as already mentioned in previous updates, another major factor appears to be review speed. Both on the reviewer side and on the author side, when more than one review happens within roughly a 36-hour timeframe, the probability of moderation appears to increase significantly. This is exactly why we continue insisting on naturally spacing reviews over time.

Starting today, completed assignments will only count toward increasing your available promotions once they are fully verified by BookVillage. This means that simply submitting a review will no longer be enough for the contribution to be counted immediately.The assignment must first pass our verification process. In addition, regardless of the type or value of the reviews completed, the maximum disproportionality allowed between completed assignments and activated promotions has been reduced from 30% to 10%. In practical terms: If you have completed 10 assignments, you will now be able to receive a maximum of 11 promotions overall, regardless of the specific types of assignments completed or promotions activated. These changes are part of the massive verification process we are currently conducting across all user accounts inside BookVillage. Our goal is to dramatically improve the long-term stability of the platform and restore the speed at which promotions get booked, while keeping review removals as low as possible. And after analyzing enormous amounts of internal data, one thing has become extremely clear: The era where people could create Amazon accounts used almost exclusively to post unverified ebook reviews, instead of posting verified paid ones, is over. From now on, these types of accounts will no longer be accepted inside BookVillage. Accounts must either show signs of real customer behavior, especially a minimum history of physical product purchases, which dramatically increases the overall trust score of the account in Amazon’s eyes. Or they must focus exclusively on verified purchase reviews. Based on all the data we analyzed so far, these healthier account structures are not currently the primary targets of Amazon’s moderation systems. We know these changes are stricter. But they are necessary. The review you post is the review another author receives. Protecting the quality and safety of reviewer accounts protects the entire Village. As always, if you have questions or doubts, ask us directly or contact support.