Quote:
Originally Posted by DiapDealer
By carpet-bombing the publisher with emails from angry readers, for one. Where it might actually do some good... where the rage actually belongs. You don't think publishers are actually reading Amazon book reviews do you? The one-star campaign accomplishes nothing except annoying potential readers who are trying to get an idea about the quality and the content of a book.
|
Why would you think the publishers are not paying attention? And even if they aren't, the authors certainly are--you think an author isn't going to notice and bring it to the publisher's attention?
Ideally, it would be nice to bombard the publishers with mail as well, but the beauty of the one-star reviews is that it's easy to post them, it's public pressure, which is more effective than private expressions of annoyance, and it influences other customers to do the same thing.
And the trade-off is that some potential readers have to search a little harder for a review dealing with the content--so what?