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Originally Posted by gollu
I don't understand people leaving 1-star rating for a price when they should be rating the content. If the price is too high - there are enough dark ways to obtain the book, and apparently that's the response the book industry will understand. Every person that doesn't buy the book because of its high price is a sale lost, $$ less income.
Then one can come back to Amazon and rate the book with 5 stars, while suggesting book was acquired in an alternative way.
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I have no problem with downrating based on price, just like I have no problem downrating based on typos or printing errors. If every printed copy of a book reverses the left & right pages, I'd have no problems with one-star ratings. If someone writes the equivalent of a Harlequin romance--a formulaic plot with fairly standardized characters, enjoyable to people who like the genre and considered worthless by people who don't--and charged $39.95 for it, I'd expect to see one-star ratings that indicate
this book is not worth its price--which doesn't mean "the contents are awful."
A one-star rating can mean "this is a waste of money," not "this is an awful read."
Most people at Amazon review the content, not the specific edition, but that doesn't mean the edition should be above complaint. A book riddled with formatting errors is a waste of my time and money just as much as one with bad characterization and a weak plot. A book that costs as much as four other books I'd enjoy just as much is also a waste of my resources.