If you are using BookVillage seriously, there are two lessons inside the BookVillage University that you absolutely should not skip: ⭐ Lesson 5 – Promotions & Best Review Types ⭐ Lesson 7 – Using Your Amazon Account Safely In the future, these may even become mandatory modules before accessing certain platform functions. Why? Because one of the biggest mistakes people make is assuming that getting and posting reviews is “simple” and that they already understand everything. In reality, there are small details that can make a massive difference over the long term. A few examples from Lesson 5: • Reviews should be naturally diluted over time.Avoid receiving too many reviews too close together. Ideally, let at least a couple of days pass between one review and the next. • Personally, I strongly discourage enrolling your books in KDP Select.This also means avoiding making your books available through Kindle Unlimited if your goal is maximum long-term review stability. • Standard Unverified reviews should remain only a small percentage of your total review profile.And when possible, I recommend receiving them on paperback versions rather than Kindle versions. And regarding Lesson 7: Please follow the recommendations carefully. Over the last days, we have already started increasing the level of controls and monitoring across all BookVillage users because I am obsessed with understanding exactly how to minimize Amazon-related problems even further. At the moment, removals still represent a very small percentage of the total activity inside BookVillage. I expected to find far more removed reviews than we actually did. But here is the key point people often fail to understand: Sometimes it only takes a few Amazon reviewer accounts getting banned for all the reviews posted from those accounts to disappear at once.

I’d like to ask for your help on something important. Some of you are active in this community: https://www.skool.com/self-publishing-entrepreneurs-9850/my-honest-opinion-on-bookvillage-after-25-months?p=2944eb1d The user who wrote that comment was banned from BookVillage after being repeatedly warned about unsafe Amazon reviewer accounts. He continued using them until his reviews were removed, and is now sharing misleading information about the platform. I’ve already replied there to clarify the situation. If you have direct experience with BookVillage, I’d appreciate it if you could share your honest opinion under that post, so that anyone reading can get a more accurate and balanced view. These kinds of situations can impact how new users perceive the platform, especially when the claims being made don’t reflect how the system actually works. One important clarification: the issue was entirely related to the reviews he was posting, not the ones he received, which were completely fine. Thanks to everyone who decides to step in.