Comments on: TopTenReviews.com Hardly Impartial When It Comes To Reviews http://publishing.booklocker.com/2007/05/01/toptenreviewscom-hardly-impartial-when-it-comes-to-reviews/ What goes on the POD and Ebook publishing industry, written by someone who owns a POD and Ebook publishing company. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:12:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Sal http://publishing.booklocker.com/2007/05/01/toptenreviewscom-hardly-impartial-when-it-comes-to-reviews/#comment-17999 Sal Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:36:41 +0000 http://publishing.booklocker.com/2007/05/01/toptenreviewscom-hardly-impartial-when-it-comes-to-reviews/#comment-17999 What did you expect? Like Darren said, toptenreviews make money from affiliate marketing. They usually rank the products by how much the companies are willing to pay to be in first place or how much those companies are paying out through their affiliate programs. The only time they won't rank a company/product #1 is when the product/service is a glaringly and notoriously bad. Money motivates everything. I feel bad that so many people regard toptenreviews.com as an actual legitimate source of "objective" information. BULLOCKS! They're just screwing everyone over to increase their bottom line. And yeah, don't ever expect to have that poor review changed unless you and many other people raise a ruckus. What did you expect? Like Darren said, toptenreviews make money from affiliate marketing. They usually rank the products by how much the companies are willing to pay to be in first place or how much those companies are paying out through their affiliate programs. The only time they won’t rank a company/product #1 is when the product/service is a glaringly and notoriously bad.

Money motivates everything. I feel bad that so many people regard toptenreviews.com as an actual legitimate source of “objective” information. BULLOCKS! They’re just screwing everyone over to increase their bottom line. And yeah, don’t ever expect to have that poor review changed unless you and many other people raise a ruckus.

]]> By: Darren http://publishing.booklocker.com/2007/05/01/toptenreviewscom-hardly-impartial-when-it-comes-to-reviews/#comment-17537 Darren Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:22:07 +0000 http://publishing.booklocker.com/2007/05/01/toptenreviewscom-hardly-impartial-when-it-comes-to-reviews/#comment-17537 It's normal...topTenReviews earn their money from affiliate revenues, every of their 'buy now' link is an affiliate link. I also saw the "learn German reviews" when I was learning German and I was terrified to see that Tell me More German was first when it was such of c***. And nowhere Michel Thomas was mentioned!!!!!!! It’s normal…topTenReviews earn their money from affiliate revenues, every of their ‘buy now’ link is an affiliate link.

I also saw the “learn German reviews” when I was learning German and I was terrified to see that Tell me More German was first when it was such of c***. And nowhere Michel Thomas was mentioned!!!!!!!

]]> By: Susan Morgan http://publishing.booklocker.com/2007/05/01/toptenreviewscom-hardly-impartial-when-it-comes-to-reviews/#comment-4529 Susan Morgan Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:21:10 +0000 http://publishing.booklocker.com/2007/05/01/toptenreviewscom-hardly-impartial-when-it-comes-to-reviews/#comment-4529 Hey Richard, What a shame that this happened, especially since it gives peoiple such a FALSE impression of how responsive and easy to reach you guys are. Even when you're on vacation. I've never, ever had a problem with this, and I hope you take the "review" for what it is. Shame they haven't gotten around to posting the corrected text... Take care, Sue Hey Richard,
What a shame that this happened, especially since it gives peoiple such a FALSE impression of how responsive and easy to reach you guys are. Even when you’re on vacation.

I’ve never, ever had a problem with this, and I hope you take the “review” for what it is. Shame they haven’t gotten around to posting the corrected text…

Take care,
Sue

]]> By: TopTenREVIEWS http://publishing.booklocker.com/2007/05/01/toptenreviewscom-hardly-impartial-when-it-comes-to-reviews/#comment-1089 TopTenREVIEWS Thu, 10 May 2007 22:26:13 +0000 http://publishing.booklocker.com/2007/05/01/toptenreviewscom-hardly-impartial-when-it-comes-to-reviews/#comment-1089 We are sorry this review slipped through the cracks, our review policy does not allow this kind of language in reviews. Our current review team is well educated on what should and should not be included in a review and how to not use offending language. We have looked over your review and have taken out the mentioned text. We also bumped up your customer service score a bit, usually prompt email response is sufficient for most services. We also added a bit more information on the services Booklocker offers. The entire site will likely be updated soon, so there could be more changes. Here is your new text, to be online soon: Booklocker offer Print-on-Demand (POD) services as well as ebook and wholesale services. Booklocker takes all of the fulfillment, customer service and sales stress off of the writer at a reasonable price, less than $400. From start to finish, Booklocker has a quick print time of four to six weeks and offers decent royalty rates at 35 percent of the cover price on books sold through its online bookstore (even more for ebooks) and 15 percent of the cover price on books sold through a third-party retailer. To help sell your book they have affiliations with Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, Borders.com, booksamillion.com, chapters.ca and more. Of course, your book will also be distributed through Ingram. Although they do not offer as many services as some of the higher ranked products they do provide file hosting, ebook conversions, POD setup, cover design services and Ingram Catalog listing. Booklocker can print in both paperback and hardcover with color covers and black and white inside pages. They offer support by email and always answer their emails promptly. -TopTenREVIEWS We are sorry this review slipped through the cracks, our review policy does not allow this kind of language in reviews. Our current review team is well educated on what should and should not be included in a review and how to not use offending language. We have looked over your review and have taken out the mentioned text. We also bumped up your customer service score a bit, usually prompt email response is sufficient for most services. We also added a bit more information on the services Booklocker offers. The entire site will likely be updated soon, so there could be more changes.

Here is your new text, to be online soon:

Booklocker offer Print-on-Demand (POD) services as well as ebook and wholesale services. Booklocker takes all of the fulfillment, customer service and sales stress off of the writer at a reasonable price, less than $400. From start to finish, Booklocker has a quick print time of four to six weeks and offers decent royalty rates at 35 percent of the cover price on books sold through its online bookstore (even more for ebooks) and 15 percent of the cover price on books sold through a third-party retailer.

To help sell your book they have affiliations with Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, Borders.com, booksamillion.com, chapters.ca and more. Of course, your book will also be distributed through Ingram.

Although they do not offer as many services as some of the higher ranked products they do provide file hosting, ebook conversions, POD setup, cover design services and Ingram Catalog listing. Booklocker can print in both paperback and hardcover with color covers and black and white inside pages. They offer support by email and always answer their emails promptly.

-TopTenREVIEWS

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