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Anne R. Allen's Blog: Paid Reviews: Why Authors Should NEVER Buy Amazon ...: by Anne R. Allen Last month the Seattle Times reported that Amazon is suing a bunch of paid review mills. Unfortunately, many paid re...

Amazon Reviews

Those of us who review on Amazon often get funny comments on our reviews. Yesterday, my detailed review of the PROTECTORS anthology generated this posted comment from a fellow Amazon reviewer....

"Review too long. Boring."

Considering this person writes three and four sentence reviews--2 at current count---all I could do was laugh and move on.


Kevin

Amazon Reviews

I review on Amazon and am very well aware that, in general, Amazon reviews are seriously losing credibility among readers. Recent changes in response to sock puppetry did not help matters in my opinion. The changes that Amazon instituted did nothing to improve the quality of the reviews.

The changes also did nothing to address the growing problem of attack reviews as detailed  in this  piece from the New York Times today.

Interesting Reading Elsewhere-- "Amazon Tackles Review Problem, Deletes Wrong Reviews" (Forbes)

In her interesting piece "Amazon Tackles Review Problem, Deletes Wrong Reviews"  Suw Charman-Anderson recounts the recent efforts that Amazon has undertaken to find and delete fake reviews. Interestingly, not only does she detail both sides of the problem, she also points out the hypocrisy regarding Amazon's favorite number one reviewer,  Harriet Klausner.

Worth your time to read as are the comments.


Kevin