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Unbelievable FAKERY!On 13 December 2022, one of BookBub’s Featured Deals was Her Perfect Life, $1.99 $27.95 with the annotation “Deal expires in 7 days or less,”It is the 27 December, and you still buy this book from all retailers for $1.99. “The Deal expires in 7 days or less” was/is rubbish!The highest price I could ever find on Amazon was $14.99. If you go to Kobo, you’ll see “Was $9.99 Now $0.99.”Only BookBub could tell you where they got the $27.95 strikethrough price. Was the price FAKE? Was the discount FAKE? A better question might be, was any part of this ad KOSHER? ... See MoreSee Less
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I recently downloaded one of BookBub’s bargain Featured Deals described as Free! $2.99. Did I receive a discount of $2.99? No! It was FREE for nearly a year before the promotion, it was FREE the day of the promotion, and it’s still FREE today. The book is permanently free (PERMAFREE) and the discount was fake. BookBub is very loose with strikethrough prices.The Featured Deal promoted the book offer as “Limited time only,” but it’s PERMAFREE. How can a PERMAFREE book EVER meet the “Limited time” definition? There were at least twenty-six typos, omissions, and spelling mistakes in this ERROR-FREE selection. Twenty-six!!There were numerous inconsistencies in the characters and the plot in this ERROR-FREE selection, and the number of redundant words had to be read to be believed.There is nothing to indicate that this book was edited or proofread, and if it was, the editor, and proofreader should be sued.This author’s other books are of similar quality, yet this lucky author is the beneficiary of twelve BookBub Featured Deals per year. For those who don’t know, BookBub has more than 20 million subscribers and authors are desperate to have their titles selected for Featured Deals. BookBub rejects thousands of submissions, and selection for even one Featured Deal is a significant achievement. BookBub asserts that for its “expert editorial team” to consider a book for a Featured Deal, it must, at a minimum, be error-free, the content is well-formatted and free of typos and grammatical errors — I’m serious, that is what BookBub claims.I feel sorry for the conscientious, diligent authors who pay to have their books edited and proofread only to have their submissions repeatedly rejected by BookBub.To those of you who think the preceding is a “one-off” or isolated, let me assure you it is not. For those authors and readers who think I have a poor opinion of BookBub and its “purportedly” expert editorial team — congratulations, you’ve worked me out. ... See MoreSee Less
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