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What a 5 Star Amazon Review Means for an Indie Author
One industry millennials definitely aren’t killing is the online review industry. We love reviews. We need reviews. We leave reviews for our Lyft drivers and our servers at restaurants. We’ll take a racist restaurant owner down with bad reviews — or we’ll spend hours uncontrollably laughing about sugar free gummy bear reviews.
For independent authors, we rely on positive reviews. It’s a simple way to support our work, and the more positive reviews we get, the more the algorithms on Amazon work in our favor and recommend our book.
Five star reviews help to promote books. One star reviews harm the book’s ranking on Amazon and it’s better to get no review than a one star review.
My only one star review is from a guy who clearly didn’t read the book and decided to leave a grumpy review based on the title alone. It’s moderately amusing when I don’t think about the fact that he’s kinda harshing my vibe.
Why reviews matter to indie authors
Reviews matter to all authors, but Stephen King does not have to worry about what nineteen people on the internet think about his books in order to sell more. He’s fine.
Whether an indie author is truly going it alone and self-publishing or is published by a small independent…
