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Originally Posted by jhempel24
But yeah the one star reviews for Tower of Midnight are uncalled for, I know it's a way to try and punish the publisher/seller/distributor/whatever, but it's pretty shallow to me, the reviews are supposed to be about the story.
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[emphasis mine] I have to disagree. Quite a bit in fact! You aren't just buying a story, you are buying a whole "package" [whether that package is a paperbook, an ebook, a dvd, a dvd set, etc, etc]. I know I have shied away from several purchases of dvd sets because reviewers told about disc's getting scratched from poor design, stuff breaking, blah blah blah.
Same goes for books. If a book is filled with errors, I want to know about it. Before I plunk down my extremely hard earned "fun" money, I want to make sure that I am not getting a lemon. If the publishers want to play games with the books I WANT to buy, then they need to expect a backlash.
And since there isn't any other way for us, the consumer, to protest about the non-release of a book, we have to fight with the tools given us. Hence the 1 star reviews.