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Originally Posted by Catlady
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?
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As others have noted, ratings are permanent. This means that even if an e-book's price goes from $16 to 99 cents, the one-star review stays. So that punishes an author permanently for a problem that a) wasn't their decision, and b) wasn't permanent.
Secondly, because the reviews are
overall reviews, rather than segmented into different aspects of the book, a reader looking at the reviews comes to the conclusion, "Hey, this book must suck", rather than "This book must be priced too high". So aside from being unfair, it's inaccurate to post a one-star review on a book when you're only analyzing one aspect of the product.
Reviewers should at least be required to divide their reviews into price and content. That would give an accurate reflection of the work.