Obviously in the world of publishing, whether that be music or books, audio or photos, reviews are important. We all want to know whether other people liked something or not, even though we realize others may have totally different tastes from ours. We have that "keeping up with Joneses" factor to consider don't we? If somebody else liked it and enjoyed it, we want to like it and enjoy it as well. Or hate it, whatever the case may be.
There are millions of books on Amazon, thousands going for free on any given day of the week. The hope is that you'll download the book, read it, and give a struggling artist a review. When it sits there, doing absolutely nothing, you become bitter and twisted, wondering if there's an industry for wine-bottle cork art or if there are just another thousand people out there, just like you, building up their wine cork collection.
I realized this morning, doing more research on marketing, that I should spend at least one hour a week reading and leaving a review for some hopeful author on Amazon because if I'm not doing it and my own success depends on it, then how can I ask others to? So I've downloaded two books from Amazon's Top 100 Free in horror>>comedy section and I'm going to review at least one of them today. Maybe I'll start a movement?
My goal here is to give authors an honest review, without prompting, that could start the ball rolling for them. I deliberately zoomed past the ones with reviews because their star is already rising, or should be. I headed straight for the ones with ZERO reviews. Maybe I'll discover the next super-awesome must-read book? Let's see how it goes. :)
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