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Originally Posted by Steven Lake
So far it's only happened to me on one book, and only by two people who apparently didn't like all the pro-Oort fuss I was making a few months back. So, from what I can best guess based on their previous reading lists (all Manga and Fantasy from what I could see, and not a drop of sci-fi except where they were burning the author) they wanted to burn me as best they could in order to "shut me up" and ensure that their "favorite author" got top honors while I got nothing.
What these dirty reviewers are doing is *NOT* fair and honest in any way, and is actually very spiteful and dishonest.
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You really have no way of knowing whether or not they read sci-fi. I only tend to review things I hate on Amazon and rarely publish positive reviews unless I have something to add that others haven't already said. (In fact, I predominately read sci-fi, but I have never reviewed a sci-fi book on Amazon.) I do vote up positive reviews, and I'm not malicious in my low ratings. But one indie author whose book I gave 2-stars responded to my review saying that I never give positive reviews and therefore my opinion sucked and went on to say a bunch of derogatory things.
This supposed malicious practice isn't any more or less fair than indie authors who recruit their entire family to give 5-star reviews. And I don't know anyone who solely looks at the
number of one-star reviews and decides not to buy. Most people are intelligent enough to know that they should look at the
quality of the one-star reviews. And besides that, sometimes what one-star reviewers complain about isn't enough to stop me from buying.
You can either ignore the people who can't write a comprehensive one-star review, or you can come on here and complain about life not being fair. It sounds like you're taking the whole thing a little too personal. Try not to pull an Anne Rice.
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Originally Posted by jhempel24
I've recently seen 1 star review of Tower of Midnight because it didn't come out on eBook. They obviously don't get the point that the story has nothing to do with the format. It's pretty bad.
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In this particular case, yes, that is ridiculous. But at the same time, how do you get the publisher (and in this case the author's widow) to understand how important ebooks are? Writing to the publishers does nothing, but negative reviews get their attention. I would never write such a review, but I understand why people do.
But I have to disagree that ONLY the story should be reviewed. Format is equally important, and so is grammar and editing. What if the printed text is missing pages? What if the Kindle edition has mistakes on every page? These are things I would want to know before purchasing the book.