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Reviews stripped from Amazon

First Russia bans me, now Amazon bans me. This past summer, Amazon stripped me of reviewing privileges, both for amazon.ca and dot com, plus they deleted years’ worth of my reviews. Why? Because they said I violated community guidelines with one of my reviews, then cited two earlier reviews. The cited review is posted below, plus I looked up the other two. One is linked below. The other is odd — I didn’t review a book that day. I keep them all logged on my goodreads profile. I don’t know how these reviews break guidelines, but I have to wonder why books about Russia are being targeted. Sooooo … now I am posting my reviews in a new spot on my website, as well as on as many other places I can think of. I do like to support my fellow authors, after all.

Amazon.com <community-help@amazon.com>Tue, Oct 3, 2:14 AM
to me
Message From Customer Service
Hello Marsha Skrypuch,

I’m sorry we haven’t been able to address your concerns to your satisfaction. However, I won’t be able to offer any additional insight or action on this matter.

We removed your posting privileges because your most recent post violated our guidelines and Conditions of Use. You previously violated our guidelines on 2023/05/31 and then again on 2023/09/07. (I posted no review on this date)

This book will shock and inform you. I urge you to read it.

This book is written by Keir Giles, who is a Senior Consulting Fellow for the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House. He speaks with authority on the topic of Russia’s world-view and goals and the risks we all are facing because we don’t take the malevolence of the Russian Federation seriously enough. Giles shows how Russia uses the west’s openness, innate decency and democracy as tools to destroy those very things. Russia’s antipathy to the west is all encompassing, as is Putin’s ruthlessness. No enemy is too small to destroy, nor too big. This book will shock and inform you. I urge you to read it. If you think the current war is just about Ukraine, you need to read this book. If you think the road to peace is negotiation, you need to read this book.

We won’t reinstate your posting permissions for this account.

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Saving for posterity

Because in a blink of an eye, the numbers will change. But this shows the power of Ali Velshi. Winterkill shot up on Amazon in both the US and Canada. In the US, Winterkill is currently at #40 overall and is #1 in several categories. Check it out:

Amazon.com
This is Amazon.com
Amazing to be #1,2,3 and 4 in a category, all for the same book!
In Canada it’s a little bit different — a bunch of my books ended up in the top ten!
Wonder how long this tag will stay on amazon.com

Oh, and I must have missed it totally, but Winterkill was #3 overall on Amazon.com on Feb 19th, according to Top Ten Books: