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Old 09-03-2012, 06:42 PM   #117
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In the New York Times or the Atlantic Monthly, yes, because the reviewer is being paid to be objective, and some effort is made to keep reviewers away from books authored by friends.
Are you sure? I heard differently this weekend at Worldcon. They do not publish the relation the reviewer have with the author if any and it is common that there is some relation. According to the person in a panel that seemed to know what he was talking about.
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