SAYEBOOK REVIEW GUIDELINES

1. Honest Reviews

Reviews should reflect your genuine opinion or experience with the work.

You do not necessarily have to purchase a title through SayeBook to review it, but you should have sufficient experience with the book or audiobook to provide a meaningful opinion.

Where SayeBook provides a Verified Purchase designation, that designation indicates an eligible purchase through SayeBook. It does not mean that other genuine reviews are automatically invalid.

2. Positive and Negative Opinions Are Welcome

Readers may praise or criticize a work.

A negative review does not violate these guidelines merely because an author disagrees with it.

Likewise, SayeBook does not guarantee that authors will receive favorable reviews.

Criticism should focus primarily on the work rather than becoming harassment or personal abuse.

3. Paid and Manipulated Reviews

Do not buy, sell, fabricate, or coordinate reviews intended to manipulate a title's reputation or rating.

Compensation must not be conditioned on providing a positive or negative review.

Authors must not review their own works or use other accounts to do so.

Users must not create accounts, use automated systems, or coordinate groups for the purpose of manipulating ratings, reviews, or helpfulness votes.

4. Free and Advance Review Copies

Receiving a legitimate complimentary or advance review copy does not automatically prevent someone from reviewing a work.

Any material relationship or incentive that could reasonably affect how readers interpret the review should be appropriately disclosed.

Providing a free copy must not be conditioned on giving a positive review.

5. Conflicts and Relationships

Authors, publishers, employees, family members, business partners, or others with a material relationship to a title should not present a review as though it were an independent customer opinion.

Where a review is permitted despite a relevant relationship, appropriate disclosure may be required.

6. Prohibited Review Content

Reviews must not contain harassment, credible threats, unlawful private information, spam, unrelated advertising, impersonation, or content that otherwise violates applicable SayeBook policies.

Reviews should remain substantially relevant to the title or the reader's experience with it.

7. Spoilers

Reviews may discuss a book's content, including plot developments.

Where practical, reviewers should provide a clear warning before revealing major spoilers.

SayeBook may provide technical spoiler-warning features, but the absence of such a feature does not excuse intentionally misleading or abusive conduct.

8. Helpfulness Voting

A helpfulness vote should indicate whether a review was useful, not merely whether you agree with its opinion.

Automated, purchased, coordinated, or otherwise manipulated helpfulness voting is prohibited.

9. Moderation

SayeBook may remove, restrict, or reduce the visibility of reviews that violate these guidelines.

Depending on severity and history, SayeBook may warn a user, restrict review functionality, suspend relevant features, or take additional account action under the Acceptable Use Policy.

Moderation should not be used merely to suppress a legitimate negative opinion about a book.

10. Reconsideration

A user may contact SayeBook Support regarding a significant review-related moderation action.

Submitting a request does not guarantee restoration of the review or reversal of the moderation decision.

Version history

• Version 2.0.0 — 21 September 2026

  Approved SayeBook policy implemented from the owner-provided authoritative source.