Bad Romance
Sarah Jeong,
The Verge,
Jul 18, 2018
This is a long and occasionally racy read about collusion and competition in the Amazon Kindle romance novel self-publishing industry. It's an important read because the patterns of behaviour are not unique to romance novels - they are characteristic of our information landscape in general. Things like review teams, newsletter swaps, cross-purchasing, chart gaming, newsletter placement selling, content stuffing, ghostwriting, clickbaiting and reader baiting - are common in all domains of online publishing.
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