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By a large margin, the ratio of legitimate (verified buyer) to "maybe but probably not legitimate" reviewers is the worst out there at the time of this article'
by ztjio 9y ago
By a large margin, the ratio of legitimate (verified buyer) to "maybe but probably not legitimate" reviewers is the worst out there at the time of this article's publishing. It's pretty clear these are not valid reviews.
Personally, I think on hot topic items like this, Amazon should simply lock down 100% to verified purchases for like, 2 weeks.
- ggg9990 9y agoThe reason they don't do this is that the people with pre-publication access to the book, while mostly the authors friends and family, are the only source of reviews for buyers looking at Amazon on launch day. They don't want to throw away those reviews, and those readers obviously didn't buy on Amazon.
- ztjio 9y agoThey don't need those reviews in these cases. There are PLENTY of real reviewers in a high profile case like this.
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