{"id":3240,"date":"2016-10-17T19:56:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T19:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Via-Matthew-Cox-a-sensible-thorough-and-calm-assessment-of-the-current-state-of-Amazon-review-policy"},"modified":"2016-10-17T19:56:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T19:56:33","slug":"via-matthew-cox-a-sensible-thorough-and-calm-assessment-of-the-current-state-of-amazon-review-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/10\/17\/via-matthew-cox-a-sensible-thorough-and-calm-assessment-of-the-current-state-of-amazon-review-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Via Matthew Cox, a sensible, thorough, and calm assessment of the current state of Amazon review policy."},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Via Matthew Cox, a sensible, thorough, and calm assessment of the current state of Amazon review policy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My personal policy has always been that I disclose when I&#8217;ve received a book from the author or publisher for review purposes; that I disclose knowing the author on social media; and that I do not review any anthology or boxed set in which my work appears. Also, of course, I never accept anything other than the book itself in compensation for the review, before or afterwards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All of this is now official, clearly spelled out Amazon policy (except the bit about disclosing social media friendship, and as far as I&#8217;m aware I&#8217;ve never had a review removed where I made that disclosure). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Originally shared by Alex J. Cavanaugh<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttp:\/\/annerallen.com\/amazons-new-review-rules-should-authors-worry\/<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Via Matthew Cox, a sensible, thorough, and calm assessment of the current state of Amazon review policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publishing-industry-and-business-of-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}