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Write. Publish. Repeat.: The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success
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From Sean Platt
This report was last updated 9/11/2020.
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Note: While Amazon.co.uk claims 877 Ratings, we counted 138 Reviews available on their site.
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".
Report Card
Fail Overall Grade
FAIL Reviewer Ease
FAIL Phrase Repetition
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Word Count Comparison
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Unverified Purchases
PASS Suspicious Reviewers
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Incentivized Reviews
PASS Deleted Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
Not great, sent it back [Go to full review]
Jul 20, 2017
100%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 2.2)
Least Trusted Reviews
I started reading Write.Publish.Repeat at two o'clock in the morning ... [Go to full review]
Dec 18, 2013
0%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Created on a high volume day
- Overrepresented word count (86 words)
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Overlapping Review History: reviewed 1 of 9 top products
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 10 Reviews)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)
Analysis Details
Fail Reviewer Ease
The ease score is the average rating for all reviews that a given reviewer submits. The average ease score for reviewers of this product is 4.6, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.3. Based on our statistical modeling, the discrepancy in average rating between these two groups is significant enough to believe that the difference is not due to random chance, and may indicate that there are unnatural reviews.
4.6 Product's Average Ease Score
4.3 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Fail Phrase Repetition
Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
Common Phrases in Reviews:
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9 reviews
(5.0/5)
(5.0/5)
2 reviews
(5.0/5)
(5.0/5)
5 reviews
(4.4/5)
(4.4/5)
8 reviews
(5.0/5)
(5.0/5)
4 reviews
(5.0/5)
(5.0/5)
2 reviews
(5.0/5)
(5.0/5)
2 reviews
(5.0/5)
(5.0/5)
4 reviews
(5.0/5)
(5.0/5)
3 reviews
(5.0/5)
(5.0/5)
2 reviews
(5.0/5)
(5.0/5)
36 of the 138 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.9 while reviews without substantial repetitive phrases rated this product an average of 4.7. Based on our statistical modeling, the discrepancy in average rating between these two groups is significant enough to believe that the difference is not due to random chance, and may indicate that there are unnatural reviews.
Warn Rating Trend
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- 5%
- Created over 2 days
We counted 138 reviews for this product over the span of 2,421 days, an average of 0.1 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 2 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 2 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 7 reviews were created on just 2 days. Although any days with a larger number of reviews than expected is suspicious, the discrepancy in ratings from reviews created on these high volume days and reviews created on other days isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Warn Word Count Comparison
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- 49%
- Have an overrepresented word count
In the graph above, we can see the distribution of review word counts for this product and the expected distribution for this category. We see the following 2 groups with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 67 reviews (or 49%) are within an overrepresented word count group. While this is more reviews from overrepresented word count groups than we'd expect to see, these reviews do not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
Warn Reviewer Participation
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- 59%
- From reviewers with an overrepresented participation
We see the following 2 participation groups with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 81 reviewers (or 59%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
Pass Unverified Purchases
23 of the 138 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Unverified purchases may be the result of Kindle Unlimited readers, buyers who didn't pay full price, or reviewers who did not purchase the product at Amazon. Read more about our Unverified Purchases test.
Pass Suspicious Reviewers
One-Hit Wonders
4 of the 138 reviewers have only reviewed this product. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Never-Verified Reviewers
7 of the 138 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Take-Back Reviewers
13 of the 138 reviewers have had at least one of their past reviews for another product deleted. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Single-Day Reviewers
1 of the 138 reviewers have written multiple reviews but posted all of them on a single day. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Pass Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
5% also reviewed:
Let's Get Visible: How To Get Noticed And... by David Gaughran
3% also reviewed:
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
3% also reviewed:
On Writing by Stephen King
3% also reviewed:
Amazon.co.uk eGift Voucher (Various Designs) by Amazon EU S.à.r.l.
2% also reviewed:
Duronic Extension Lead Tower ST10B Power Strip... by Duronic
2% also reviewed:
Stone of Fire (ARKANE Book 1) by J.F. Penn
2% also reviewed:
The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live... by Timothy Ferriss
2% also reviewed:
Look Behind You by Sibel Hodge
Does not include products
from the same brand
from the same brand
26 of the 138 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Pass Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
We didn't detect a substantial amount of Brand Repeaters.
Pass Incentivized Reviews
On Oct 3, 2016, Amazon prohibited incentivized reviews, however we still test for them since there are still millions in our dataset.
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- 0%
- Admitted to receiving an incentive
We didn't detect any reviews that used language indicating they were incentivized.
Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.
Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.
Pass Deleted Reviews
- 0
- Reviews have been deleted
We have not discovered any deleted reviews for this product.
There are a few limitations to keep in mind regarding the Deleted Reviews test:
There are a few limitations to keep in mind regarding the Deleted Reviews test:
- We don't have a magic ability to collect every single deleted review; we can only identify reviews as deleted if we collect them on one date and then notice they are no longer visible on a subsequent date.
- We have no information on reviews that were never published in the first place.
- We also don't know why these reviews were removed. It could be action from the platform, personal decision by the review author, part of an entire account closure, even some data error on our part, etc.