Review question

It's nice to spread good reviews across the Internet so I understand the temptation but I would advise against. If readers want to post reviews of your book on Amazon, they will do so. Reviews are by and for readers, and the author needs to leave well alone.

I think it's okay to retweet or link to good reviews, of course, but even then you have to remember you're pretty much reaching the same audience with each message, and that audience will tire of "I got another 5-star review on Amazon!" pretty quickly.

Bottom line for me: leave the reviewing to readers while you get on and write your next book.

You mustn't copy anyone else's work without permission, so unless you've got the express permission to copy the reviews onto your website you really should delete them from there (unless, of course, you've just quoted a small portion of the review and have linked back to the source.

You certainly shouldn't copy anyone else's review of your books onto Amazon: that would present the reviews as your own work which would look incredibly tacky; and it would cut out the reviewer whose name would not be attached to the piece.

If a reviewer wants to copy her work to Amazon that's fine: let her. But don't do it for her, not even with her permission. It's not appropriate, for a few reasons.

If you go to author central on Amazon there is space to quote excerpts of reviews and link back to them. Obviously, it's looks better if you're quoting the New York Times Review than book-blogger-with-five-followers, but it's up to you; I wouldn't put goodreads reviews and so on up there, but if you're being reviewed by some of the bigger review blogs in your genre it couldn't hurt.

I have an open policy that I will post reviews to Amazon upon request. But if the reviewer does not have that, I wouldn't ask. You could post it as an 'editorial review' if you have publisher access.