My Amazon book reviews seem to have disappeared

I wrote 20 or so over the past few years, and can’t find any of them now, even looking back many pages to the first-posted review of several books I know I wrote about. What gives? Are they purged from time to time?

Nope, I can see mine as far back as 1999. Look under your profile, it should show your reviews.

Huh. Thanks. They appear in my profile, but not among the listed reviews of at least some of the books I wrote about.

Amazon is only showing reviews from purchasers by default now. You have to click a button to see all reviews.

Books might throw an additional kink in due to various editions, etc. Maybe you bought a certain edition from Amazon but that doesn’t count for a different edition.

And yes, people trolling the book reviews in particular was an incentive to set this as the default. Too many people were posting negative reviews about books from “the wrong people” despite never having read the book, let alone buy it.