tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121649472180371405.post2040543379577744525..comments2024-01-07T00:08:50.346-06:00Comments on Literary License (short reviews, real opinions): Amazon.com Reviewer Shake-Up: Down with Harriet KlausnerGwen Dawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02802377594686973300noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121649472180371405.post-33489959028424266182008-10-25T15:01:00.000-05:002008-10-25T15:01:00.000-05:00The Amazon top reviewers thing is just full of cra...The Amazon top reviewers thing is just full of crap. I bet some of these people don't even read half of the books they review. <BR/><BR/>I took away my business with Amazon altogether after I stopped submitting reviews to them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121649472180371405.post-54352318487877955032008-10-24T20:47:00.000-05:002008-10-24T20:47:00.000-05:00I've been wondering for the last couple of years w...I've been wondering for the last couple of years what it would take to knock Harriet out of that number one slot, so I'm tickled to see it finally happen. Personally, I always wondered it "Harriet" was a team of six or ten people because no one could read that many books...or want to, for that matter.<BR/><BR/>Her reviews have always been pretty poor, by any literary standard, so this is good news to a whole lot of people.<BR/><BR/>The new Amazon ranking system is interesting, to say the least. And, even with the problems it still seems to have, it is a definite improvement over the old one.<BR/><BR/>Good riddance to Harriet.Sam https://www.blogger.com/profile/17448913705757509608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121649472180371405.post-50591940115104141832008-10-24T16:33:00.000-05:002008-10-24T16:33:00.000-05:00How does anyone get away with reviewing any book t...How does anyone get away with reviewing any book they haven't read? No one can read seven books in a day. I'm probably in the minority on this but I don't even want to hear anyone's opinion on a book they haven't read, and I mean cover to cover. If you didn't like it, tell me which page you quit on<BR/>and what you didn't like. After that your opinion means little or nothing to me. You're just using the publisher's synopsis and things others have said. I can read those for myself. Frankly, I'd trust book bloggers or LibraryThing reviewers before I'd trust online bookseller reviewers.Sandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06265301061583417768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121649472180371405.post-13746087203549999712008-10-24T14:20:00.000-05:002008-10-24T14:20:00.000-05:00Thanks for posting this Gwen/ This is always a ho...Thanks for posting this Gwen/ This is always a hot topic over at the LT ARC Junkies message boards!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121649472180371405.post-64415489618052832682008-10-24T13:36:00.000-05:002008-10-24T13:36:00.000-05:00This is actually pretty amazing. I went over to Am...This is actually pretty amazing. I went over to Amazon to check things out, and I was shocked to find that my new raking is 200 paces higher than my classic one when you get to the top 1000, that number is huge)!Katherinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16108897586586146730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121649472180371405.post-27689594287891018732008-10-24T11:40:00.000-05:002008-10-24T11:40:00.000-05:00I've seen people who have reviews for thousands of...I've seen people who have reviews for thousands of books on amazon. There's just no way they could have read all of them, so their reviews don't hold much weight with me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com