BookWhirl Rebuts Negative Review and Scamming Allegations

In the league of business and advertising, competition is rigidly fierce. In the self-publishing industry, you have to be the cut above the rest to generate “buzz” among your consumers and race neck to neck with your competition.

Angela Hoy, co-owner of WritersWeekly.com and BookLocker.com, published a forum thread entitled “BEWARE OF BOOKWHIRL! -commonly mis-pronounced BookWorld” WritersWeekly.com last May 6, 2009.

The forum thread contained negative reviews by Angela Hoy against BookWhirl.com, claiming the business entity as a spamming telemarketing outfit that lures self-published authors.

BookWhirl Responds to Negative Reviews

Publicity is crucial for every business entity. But whether if it’s good or bad publicity, it is still publicity. Even the oldest and well-established businesses and corporations have their own share of good and bad publicity. Every person is entitled to an opinion. After all, we value the freedom of expression.

Author Lee Goldberg once published an article about BookWhirl.com. He entitled his post, "BookWhirl Can't Even Sell Itself". Published last August 2008, the article features Goldberg’s first and only impression about BookWhirl.com.