Remember that silly ad-posing-as-an-article in which a "professional writer" who clearly had no experience of commercial publishing - you know, someone exactly like Adam Salviani - sang the praises of GSP?
http://biohunt.net/green-shore-publishing-made-successful-sales-reality/
The comments are most instructive.
http://biohunt.net/green-shore-publishing-made-successful-sales-reality/
The comments are most instructive.
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Julia
July 15, 2014 at 5:13 pm
This would be much more convincing if you and your author friend had names – or if there was any evidence that Green Shore Publishing has ever released a single book!
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admin Post author
July 22, 2014 at 7:42 am
I aggree, Julia, but this is just about all the information I can share at this point.
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Jurgen Wolff
July 24, 2014 at 11:17 am
Really? An author too shy to mention his name or the name of his books? Well, at least tell us what books you saw published by Green Shore that inspired such confidence on your part. Or was it the three video “reviews” (testimonials) by your fellow authors on the Green Shore site? Oh wait, those were all recorded by actors who offer video testimonials for anything for $5 on Fiverr.com.
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admin Post author
July 30, 2014 at 11:00 pm
Whatever people do for $5, they do so out of necessity. As long as it doesn’t harm anyone, I think it’s alright – after all, we live in a world where advertising means making a living; and if folks sell promotional videos for $5, I can only say that I admire their determination to make a living in a decent way.
Jurgen Wolff
August 1, 2014 at 8:13 am
Lying about using a product in order to convince others to pay for it is not decent and it does harm someone if they are led to believe these are real authors describing real results instead of five-dollar actors.
admin Post author
August 1, 2014 at 5:26 pm
You are entitled to your opinion, as I am allowed to disagree with you. People need money and as long as they are working for it, neither stealing, nor scamming, it’s alright. After all, it’s up to the the end consumer, who is also human, right? Well this means that either he or she is smart enough to decide whether or not to buy a particular service or product.
What difference does it make whether a product or service is promoted by someone who got paid a measly amount or by a celebrity who received millions? The advertising industry has, sadly enough, nothing to do with quality – the person who decides what’s worth it and what’s not is only the consumer.
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L
July 26, 2014 at 3:19 am
Fortunately, anyone who wants to learn more about Green Shore Publishing can do so here: http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=292778&page=8
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Julia Atkinson
October 6, 2014 at 6:31 pm
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The use of fake testimonials is ILLEGAL in the UK, USA, Australia and probably anywhere else. Are you really this ethically-challenged? Can you not see the difference between an actor playing a dentist in an obviously fictional situation as part of a toothpaste commercial and an actor pretending to be the REAL author of a REAL book in order to drum up business for a vanity press?
By the way, due to pressure from the Advertising Standards Authority those fake testimonials have been removed from the GSP website.