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Let's Get Digital: How To Self-Publish, And Why You Should (Third Edition) (Let's Get...
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From Gaughran, David
This report was last updated 2/7/2020.
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Pass Overall Grade
FAIL
Overlapping Review History

WARN
Rating Trend

WARN
Brand Repeats

WARN
Phrase Repetition

WARN
Reviewer Participation

PASS
Unverified Purchases

PASS
Word Count Comparison

PASS
Suspicious Reviewers

PASS
Reviewer Ease

PASS
Incentivized Reviews

PASS
Deleted Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews
Concise, informative, and evidence-based, with very helpful step-wise order. Also ... [Go to full review]
Aug 28, 2019
100%
TRUST
TRUST
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Verified Purchaser
Reviewer data not yet gathered.
Least Trusted Reviews
Indispensable guide for everyone thinking of self-publishing. This book has ... [Go to full review]
Apr 2, 2018
0%
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TRUST
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Verified Purchaser
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Created on a high volume day
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Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 5.0)
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Brand Repeater (3 of 8 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 5.0)
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Overlapping Review History: reviewed 1 of 9 top products
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Overrepresented Participation (posted 8 Reviews)
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Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.9)
Analysis Details
Fail
Overlapping Review History

Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
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8 of the 46 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.3 while the reviewers who have a more unique product review history rated this product an average of 5.0. 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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- 15%
- Created over 2 days
We counted 46 reviews for this product over the span of 679 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. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
Warn
Brand Repeats

Brand Loyalists
1 of the 46 reviewers have reviewed multiple products but half or more of their reviews are for this brand. While this is more Brand Loyalists than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the Brand Loyalists and non-loyalists isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Warn
Phrase Repetition

Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
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Common Phrases in Titles:
2 reviews
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8 of the 46 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.
Warn
Reviewer Participation

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- 39%
- From reviewers with an overrepresented participation
We see the following 1 participation group with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 18 reviewers (or 39%) are within an overrepresented participation group. While this is more reviews from overrepresented participation groups than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between reviewers in an overrepresented participation groups and all other reviewers isn’t significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Pass
Unverified Purchases

7 of the 46 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
Word Count Comparison

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- 0%
- Have an overrepresented word count
We didn't find any review word count groups that had a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see in this category.
Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.
Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.
Pass
Suspicious Reviewers

One-Hit Wonders
2 of the 46 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
2 of the 46 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
3 of the 46 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 46 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
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 4.4. While this discrepancy is rather large, it is not quite large enough to rule out the possibility of it being due random chance.
4.6 Product's Average Ease Score
4.4 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
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.