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Originally Posted by tompe
Publishers looks at the average rating when deciding if publishing more books of the author. For example.
It is like going into a bookshop and hide the books that you do not like the price of by for example mis-sorting them. According to you you can just look for the book (read the reviews) so it is OK to hide the books.
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Publishers look at sales figures and profit margins.
First we had people saying that these one-stars are useless because publishers DON'T pay attention to them, and now we've come around to claims that publishers base their decisions on them. So which is it?
Your analogy makes no sense. Nothing is being hidden. It's all right there in front of you.