Wednesday, August 29, 2012

buying book reviews: yikes!

An article in the New York Times, "The Best Book Reviews Money Can
Buy," explores the seedy world of authors paying for positive book
reviews on Amazon to influence potential buyers. Principled authors
should be above that kind of thing. Shouldn't they?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/business/book-reviewers-for-hire-meet-a-demand-for-online-raves.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
This blog on Forbes is about the same topic:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/suwcharmananderson/2012/08/28/fake-reviews-amazons-rotten-core/

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