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Originally Posted by Catlady
Your point being?
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My point being that it's vandalism. It's no different than if they'd gone to his book's website and defaced it.
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Originally Posted by Catlady
It's a PROTEST. I asked earlier in this thread, what other form of public protest do customers have recourse to?
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1) Tagging
2) Comments on
other people's reviews.
3) Posting in Amazon's forums.
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Originally Posted by Catlady
How come it's all right to refuse to buy a book based on price (even though that hurts the author, who--we've been told--is just an innocent pawn in the wicked pricing schemes of the evil publisher), but it's not all right to criticize pricing publicly in a review?
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I never said it wasn't valid to criticize price in a review. That's perfectly valid --
if you read the book. It's also perfectly valid to not buy a book. No one is forcibly compelled to buy books.
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Originally Posted by Catlady
Price is an aspect of the product being purchased, and a legitimate area for comment.
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Of course it is. If you wanted to write an essay on why you didn't buy a book based on its price, and put it on your personal site, or submit it as an editorial to the NY Times, I'd fully support that. Hell, I'd even support it if you put it on Amazon's site, as long as you didn't pretend it was a review (e.g., in the comments section of other reviews). But a review (however many stars you give it) from someone who didn't read the book is worthless. It doesn't matter if it's a "professional" review or not. People reading something labeled a "review" for a book expect it to be at least partially about the content. Otherwise, it's not a review. It's a price check.