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Originally Posted by Pulpmeister
What to the following have in common:
George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Kingsley Amis, Gore Vidal, Anthony Powell, Anthony Burgess, Anthony Boucher, James Blish, Clive James, Henry James, John Mortimer, George Orwell, etc etc etc have in common?
They all wrote reviews....
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There's nothing stopping authors writing reviews, they just can't write Amazon customer reviews. If a known author said something nice about my novel, it would go in the body text of the book description, not in the customer reviews.
Of course Amazon are fighting a losing battle - they can't hope to catch all the sock puppets and shills - but I think it's at least worth trying to keep the review system functional.
(Perhaps they could allow reviews that don't count towards the rating?)