Thank you, Readers
For taking the time to review books,
To express what you enjoyed,
To suggest what could be better.
Thank you, Shoppers
For reading customer book reviews,
For trying to sort out which comments are helpful,
For comparing feedback to the Look Inside.
Thank you, Customers
For not being afraid to share your feedback,
Despite the few who don’t handle criticism well,
For realizing that most authors aren’t this way.
Thank you, Bloggers
For investing so much time to read many books,
For posting book reviews on your blogs,
For helping out so many authors.
Thank you, Authors
For not reviewing your own books,
For not blasting the competition,
For not lashing out at reviewers.
Thank you, Everyone
Who has taken time to post a review,
Who hasn’t abused the review guidelines,
Who supports the wonderful world of books.
We need you,
Readers, Customers, Bloggers, Reviewers.
We would be nowhere without you.
Thank you so much.
Chris McMullen
chrismcmullen 
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Thank you for sharing. 🙂
Welcome..
Chris, you always have such an awesome perspective!
Thank you. 🙂
Wonderful words and we all agree 🙂
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Gratitude where it is most deserved.
Thank you for sharing. 🙂
I agree with Susan, wonderful words. As someone who just started reviewing there are times I am hesitant to do so for some of the reasons you mentioned.
It will be really tough to get reviews when customers become reluctant to review books with little or no review history…
Actually that doesn’t bother me so much… I prefer to review something along those lines. I just don’t like to say not so nice things about people’s hard work.
That’s the way I feel, too, as a reviewer. 🙂
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