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A book blog for authors and readers founded in 2007 by indie writer Robert Stanek, Read Indies is a community of authors and readers dedicated to supporting independently published books. Join Robert Stanek and the Go Indie bloggers, help spread the word about independently published books. Get involved by participating in Go Indie, Read Indies + Free Today events / activities on Facebook, Twitter and beyond. Visit www.robert-stanek.com to learn more about our founder, or www.williamrstanek.com

5.05.2012

SUMMER OF INDIE -- ALL SUMMER LONG

Summer of Indie is just ahead, featuring some of the best and brightest stars of today's indie scene and many fresh new voices.

I'm Robert Stanek, and I'm IN, and here are 25 other indie authors who also are in:

A.D. Duling

Ashley Fontainne

Brian Bigelow

C. M. Barrett

Carolyn Arnold

Chicki Brown

Doreen McGettigan

Erik Gustafson

Jerry Last

Leigh M. Lane

Linda Leander

Lisa Bilbrey

Lynne Cantwell

Melissa Pearl

Michele Richard

Michelle Hughes

Nadia Scrieva

Nicole Storey

Rachel Hunter

Sharon Cooper

Staci Stallings

Suzie Welker

Tracy James Jones

Valerie Douglas

Are you IN?

So what's Summer of Indie about?

Summer of Indie is a FREE event. I'm donating my time to support it. Summer of Indie is a celebration of the indie author and the indie book. It's all about recognizing indie authors and celebrating their books.

You can support Summer of Indie by following this blog, encouraging others to follow and tweeting. Tweet, Tweet, Tweet...

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Insider Fraud at Amazon.com

Justice Department Identifies Ten Amazon Staff Accepting Bribes, Writing Fake Negative Reviews, Targeting Products for Take Downs When the malicious targeting of my books stopped suddenly, I thought someone must have finally caught the Amazon insiders responsible, and someone had, the Justice Department.

Current and former Amazon employees flood rivals with fake negative reviews. Corrupt former Amazon employees paid current Amazon employees to flood rivals with fake negative reviews. Amazon does same after re-producing popular products of independent sellers.

Inside Job: Amazon.com Employee Stole Credit Data of 106 Million Amazon.com is rotten to its core. This latest case of "employee gone bad" is yet another example of the widespread patterns of misbehavior, misconduct and mismanagement by Amazon.com employees that have been ongoing for the better part of two decades.

Amazon Reviews: Broken System Between 1 in 3 and 2 in 3 product reviews on Amazon.com are fake. They are bought and paid for. They are written by friends and family. They are swapped and traded on Facebook. They are incentivized from readers.

Amazon Caught in Pay-for-Praise Scheme Involving Hundreds of Employees Last August Amazon began recruiting so-called “fulfillment center ambassadors,” compensating them to generate praise for the company on twitter (and also elsewhere in social media and on Amazon’s websites). Several hundred employees have been enlisted into the highly questionable, unethical (and likely fraudulent) scheme so far.

Amazon Fraud Again: Amazon Employees Caught Creating Fake Ebay Seller Accounts In 2018, at least 50 Amazon employees were caught red handed creating fake accounts on Ebay and accused of multiple federal crimes, including criminal conspiracy, fraud and racketeering. Over a period of years, the Amazon employees had created hundreds—if not thousands—of fake seller accounts to lure sellers away from Ebay’s marketplace.

Amazon's Black Eye Deepens: A Public Sham/e Speaking out about fake reviews has made me the target of the thousands who make their living writing reviews for pay. This continues despite Amazon's public dispute with over 5000 paid reviewers at Fiverr--no few of which were writers, who unable to make a living at writing, made their living writing reviews.

Amazon Still Has a Review Problem. A Solution That Could Actually Resolve It. A visit to Amazon will take you to lots of products with oodles of reviews and the problem is that it's extremely likely most of these reviews are bogus. What percentage? Estimates vary widely, but my research says about 60% or so. Simply mentioning this fact, as I have for many years, makes me a target for those who make their living at this—whether they are merchants selling products or those who make a living by writing product reviews.

Amazon's Blackened Soul To date, there are about a billion reviews at Amazon sites that don’t meet Amazon’s own criteria for acceptability. This represents about 3 out of every 5 reviews. Is it any wonder when Amazon’s own management and executive staff are allowed to break the rules when it suits them to target an author whose book wasn’t as flattering as Amazon hoped it would be. Yes, I’m talking about....

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5.05.2012

SUMMER OF INDIE -- ALL SUMMER LONG

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