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Deborah Munro liked the forum thread, Recommendation vs. Review?
I definitely can see the point that @Joseph Keeler made about the strength of recommendations - but they are a bit of a one-shot. They’re only sent to people who are following the recommending reader at the time that they send the recommendation, so if that author gets new followers, they won’t see the old recommendations. 

Additionally, you can only see 10 recommendations on your project page. If you take a look at the page for my book Witherfist, you’ll see I have 17 recommendations - but I can only see the content of 10 of them. By contrast, all of my reviews (that I have approved) are visible. Additionally, if your book is published, the same applies - so you can see all reviews on the project page for (picking a random book that’s for sale right now) Single Version but not all the recommendations. 

From a user interface design perspective... if you’re a user who’s not familiar with Inkshares but is familiar with shopping online, reviews are familiar. We’re all used to seeing reviews on Amazon etc, where recommendations are perhaps not quite so intuitive and obvious. They rely on the user actually interacting with the little image of the user who made the recommendation, while reviews are displayed regardless. 

I’d say in the long run, reviews are probably more useful, but for short-term exposure, recommendations are good. 
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