I wholeheartedly agree that Amazon needs to fix how they handle product reviews in general. For a lot of non-book products, their system is totally broken. Bu

I wholeheartedly agree that Amazon needs to fix how they handle product reviews in general. For a lot of non-book products, their system is totally broken. But for book reviews in particular, as bad as it is, it's better than whatever Goodreads is doing. Amazon, like all review sites, can be gamed. But it takes quite a lot of effort, and credible fake reviews need to actually purchase the book in question -- and so, for the average book, fake reviews are practically a non-factor. Goodreads is trivially easy to manipulate, and it's manipulated as a matter of course. Anybody with $45 can simply buy 10 Goodreads reviews. https://alphabetazone.com/buy-goodreads-reviews/ https://alphabetazone.com/buy-goodreads-reviews/