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How Extortion Scams and Review Bombing Trolls Turned Goodreads Into Many Authors’ Worst Nightmare – by Megan McCluskey…

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How Extortion Scams and Review Bombing Trolls Turned Goodreads Into Many Authors’ Worst Nightmare – by Megan McCluskey…

on Time Magazine:

A few months after posting a message on Goodreads about the imminent release of a new book, Indie author Beth Black woke up to an all-caps ransom email from an anonymous server, demanding that she either pay for good reviews or have her books inundated with negative

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