Is it okay...?

rosehips said:

Is it okay to come on this forum and offer trade in favors, such as I'll tag your book on Amazon if you tag mine, or I'll read and review your book if you read and review mine? If not, I apologize! And please just go ahead and delete this thread immediately.

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I can't speak to "the board" policy but I will say that offering to trade reviews is ALWAYS a bad practice. It is a no-win situation. If you like the book the review is ignored because readers will easily see it as a trade. If you don't like the book you are in between a rock in a hard place as you don't want to lie yet you don't want to slam someone.

In general, tagging (IMO) - is another matter. You are not "recommending" a book - just helping a fellow author to get the right keywords assigned to their work.

Again these are my "personal" opinions I haven't studied what the board moderators opinions are.

Tagging is actually not such a great idea - Sigler just tried this, coordinated effort of fans to appropriately tag the book, but since there were no sales at the same time, the book's rank went up (as in the bad up).