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spicymchaggis
01-12-2022 at 08:53 AM.
01-12-2022 at 08:53 AM.
Thanks. Hard to pass up free.
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MickW
01-12-2022 at 09:13 AM.

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01-12-2022 at 09:13 AM.
Heh. "You purchased this item in 2016." Maybe someday I'll read all these freebies
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01-12-2022 at 09:21 AM.
01-12-2022 at 09:21 AM.
Quote from MickW :
Heh. "You purchased this item in 2016." Maybe someday I'll read all these freebies

Same here but I think I actually read this series and it was pretty good
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demiurg
01-12-2022 at 10:11 AM.
01-12-2022 at 10:11 AM.
This is just another one of those authors that has such a suspicious light trail on the internet.
Only one photo exists and is reused throughout. His personal website looks like one stock photo: http://www.colinfbarnes.com/about/

and the facebook page has one post about him starting to write under a different name
https://www.facebook.com/colinfra...e_internal

The amazon 5 star reviews are all the same style - bought reviews. The 1 star reviews are obviously written by real people

I suspect there is no Colin F Barnes, and this is some as quick and as cheaply as possible produced series by a non-native-English writer or writers, packaged up so it's more attractive to US customers
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01-12-2022 at 10:18 AM.
01-12-2022 at 10:18 AM.
Quote from demiurg :
This is just another one of those authors that has such a suspicious light trail on the internet.
Only one photo exists and is reused throughout. His personal website looks like one stock photo: http://www.colinfbarnes.com/about/

and the facebook page has one post about him starting to write under a different name
https://www.facebook.com/colinfra...e_internal

The amazon 5 star reviews are all the same style - bought reviews. The 1 star reviews are obviously written by real people

I suspect there is no Colin F Barnes, and this is some as quick and as cheaply as possible produced series by a non-native-English writer or writers, packaged up so it's more attractive to US customers

To what end and does it matter? If a fictional story is worth reading it's worth reading…
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demiurg
01-12-2022 at 01:11 PM.
01-12-2022 at 01:11 PM.
Quote from sdbuckeye :
To what end and does it matter? If a fictional story is worth reading it's worth reading…
You're absolutely right. I just find it interesting and like to share about it, and I don't like the deception behind it.

I will say, what mostly matters is the review faking, on goodreads it doesn't have a great reception and that is probably a more fair assessment than on amazon.

After all, our time is limited and precious, and we use reviews to determine where and what to spend that time with.
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01-12-2022 at 01:19 PM.
01-12-2022 at 01:19 PM.
Quote from selim :
Same here but I think I actually read this series and it was pretty good

Got this back in 2017. I never finished it. Wasn't a bad read, but from what I recall, there were a bunch of grammar and spelling mistakes, to the point where it got annoying and I gave up. It really bothers me, especially in news articles, when things have not been reviewed by an editor. But I get it, editing costs $. This book, free (although I paid $1.20 for it).
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Zantra
01-12-2022 at 01:37 PM.
01-12-2022 at 01:37 PM.
Quote from demiurg :
This is just another one of those authors that has such a suspicious light trail on the internet.
Only one photo exists and is reused throughout. His personal website looks like one stock photo: http://www.colinfbarnes.com/about/

and the facebook page has one post about him starting to write under a different name
https://www.facebook.com/colinfra...e_internal

The amazon 5 star reviews are all the same style - bought reviews. The 1 star reviews are obviously written by real people

I suspect there is no Colin F Barnes, and this is some as quick and as cheaply as possible produced series by a non-native-English writer or writers, packaged up so it's more attractive to US customers

I mean. If they were charging money for this, I might get mad that it's written by 1,000 monkeys with typewriters, but since it's free, it doesn't really matter who wrote it, as long as it's good.
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BladeD
01-12-2022 at 02:06 PM.
01-12-2022 at 02:06 PM.
You purchased this item on April 11, 2016.
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01-12-2022 at 03:10 PM.

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01-12-2022 at 03:10 PM.
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I mean. If they were charging money for this, I might get mad that it's written by 1,000 monkeys with typewriters, but since it's free, it doesn't really matter who wrote it, as long as it's good.
This is speculation on my end, but I've been wondering why there are so many books of dubious quality bouncing in and out of being free. I suspect that by doing this, the sellers make the book more legitimate in the eyes of amazon algorithms when it comes to search results.

So by us downloading it for free right now, I suspect the book might end up being ranked higher in the future (when the book is no longer free), when some poor soul is searching for a cool sci-fi series and finds a book that is artificially higher ranked because of our downloads and artificially higher rated (because of fake reviews) than it should be.

Either way, some people, somewhere are sitting on a stack of crappy books and they are working all sorts of angles to deceive the consumer, that part is pretty clear.
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Zantra
01-12-2022 at 03:25 PM.
01-12-2022 at 03:25 PM.
Quote from demiurg :
This is speculation on my end, but I've been wondering why there are so many books of dubious quality bouncing in and out of being free. I suspect that by doing this, the sellers make the book more legitimate in the eyes of amazon algorithms when it comes to search results.

So by us downloading it for free right now, I suspect the book might end up being ranked higher in the future (when the book is no longer free), when some poor soul is searching for a cool sci-fi series and finds a book that is artificially higher ranked because of our downloads and artificially higher rated (because of fake reviews) than it should be.

Either way, some people, somewhere are sitting on a stack of crappy books and they are working all sorts of angles to deceive the consumer, that part is pretty clear.

Apparently I've had it since 2016, so I don't think having it since 2016 will do anything for their book.
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CL1M4X
01-12-2022 at 03:37 PM.
01-12-2022 at 03:37 PM.
Quote from MickW :
Heh. "You purchased this item in 2016." Maybe someday I'll read all these freebies

Around April 2016? Lol
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twostepopper
01-12-2022 at 08:16 PM.
01-12-2022 at 08:16 PM.
Quote from demiurg :
This is just another one of those authors that has such a suspicious light trail on the internet.
Only one photo exists and is reused throughout. His personal website looks like one stock photo: http://www.colinfbarnes.com/about/

and the facebook page has one post about him starting to write under a different name
https://www.facebook.com/colinfra...e_internal

The amazon 5 star reviews are all the same style - bought reviews. The 1 star reviews are obviously written by real people

I suspect there is no Colin F Barnes, and this is some as quick and as cheaply as possible produced series by a non-native-English writer or writers, packaged up so it's more attractive to US customers

Your assumption seems right as even a post a few below yours says there were a lot of grammatical mistakes in the books.

Seems fishy.
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01-12-2022 at 10:25 PM.
01-12-2022 at 10:25 PM.
Free is free, you get what you pay for.
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