Amazon (Sorry for continuing this thread)

[Paul Mackin]

On Fri, 5 May 2000, Mark A. Douglas wrote:

> Just a note, without a comment on the politics of it all:  amazon.com
> can and does edit reviewer's comments when it suits their needs.  The
> Family Circle incident comes to mind, and more recently, Dave Eggers (of
> mcsweeney.net and A Heartbreaking Work of etc. fame) ran a contest on
> his website, asking readers to write obviously false reviews of his
> book.  When Amazon caught on, reader's reviews dropped from 200 plus to
> about 16.   Some of them were still there when last I checked.
> 
> I'm not sure what this means.

Think what it means is that your usual "straight" book review from an
Amazon reader isn't likely to be very interesting--compared, say, when he
or she is being "creative."

		P.