{"id":3552,"date":"2014-08-19T09:55:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T07:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3552"},"modified":"2014-08-20T08:51:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T06:51:00","slug":"amazon-reviews-an-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3552","title":{"rendered":"Amazon reviews: an update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sales of our four LabourStart books (both paperback and Kindle editions) depend in part on there being positive reviews on Amazon&#8217;s websites. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our recent effort to promote the book resulted in just five days in <strong>2,442<\/strong>\u00a0downloads and hundreds of new readers.<\/p>\n<p>But these have not generated new reviews, despite my mailing earlier this month to the <strong>1,537<\/strong> people who clicked on links in the previous mailing promoting the free Kindle edition &#8212; even though <strong>830<\/strong> of them opened that message and <strong>88<\/strong> clicked on the links to review the book on Amazon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Despite that effort, the total number of reviews remains tiny.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Having checked Amazon&#8217;s 12 websites today (USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Mexico, India and Japan) here are the total number of reviews:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Firefox OS &#8211; 8 reviews<\/li>\n<li>Global Labour Movement &#8211; 6 reviews<\/li>\n<li>Campaigning Online and Winning &#8211; 5 reviews<\/li>\n<li>Solidarity &#8211; Dan Gallin &#8211; 4 reviews<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The largest number of reviews appears on the amazon.com website (13 reviews), followed by UK (6 reviews), Canada (2), Germany (1), Spain (1).<\/p>\n<p>No reviews of our books appeared on the Australia, Brazil, India, Mexico, Japan or Italy Amazon sites.<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, a friend of mine recently self-published a little novella on Kindle. \u00a0His book has 27 reviews. \u00a0The reviews of all 4 of our books together is just 23.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If anyone has any good suggestions for how we can increase the numbers here, I&#8217;d love to hear them.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sales of our four LabourStart books (both paperback and Kindle editions) depend in part on there being positive reviews on Amazon&#8217;s websites. \u00a0 Our recent effort to promote the book resulted in just five days in 2,442\u00a0downloads and hundreds of new readers. But these have not generated new reviews, despite my mailing earlier this month [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3555,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions\/3555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}