Please share widely. Reviewers aren’t able to review on Amazon unless they’ve spent 40 pounds! This is outrageous. I for one have lost reviews because of it. Not all reviewers have the funds to spend so much on Amazon and often they are unlikely to spend that amount as they tend to be given free books in exchange for a review! UGH…
An open letter to Amazon:
Dear Amazon,
I should be your Holy Grail. I’m the real deal, an actual reader who goes through books carefully, thinks about what they mean and how they’re written, and then writes a considered, thoughtful, and hopefully helpful analysis—in other words, I’m a book reviewer.
Writers, potential customers, publishers, and oh yes—you, Amazon—should be jumping for joy and giving thanks that I’ve taken hours to read and yet more hours to craft reviews for hundreds of books. Instead, Amazon, you’ve decided to punish reviewers like me.
In the name of discouraging “fake” reviews, your new policy requires reviewers like me to spend $50 on Amazon’s US site and even more, £40 on Amazon UK before I can share my review. Have you thought about other solutions, or the effect this will have on legitimate reviewers?
Amazon has figured out how to conduct millions of legitimate…
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M J Mallon YA Author and Poet 
FYI – if you get a book via NetGalley and you put up a review there, then you can copy your review from NetGalley to Amazon. I just did that today!
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Oh, thanks for letting us know. Perhaps I need to get my book on Netgalley!
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