It's super smarmy, but pretty much par for the course for how TNR and other bastions of American literary tradition treat Amazon. They published an op-ed arguin

It's super smarmy, but pretty much par for the course for how TNR and other bastions of American literary tradition treat Amazon. They published an op-ed arguing that ordinary readers (as opposed to trained book reviewers) shouldn't be reviewing books.[0] [0] http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119875/margo-howard-amazon-vine-reviewers-sabotaged-my-book http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119875/margo-howard-amazo...