Thread: Irate kindlers 1star carpet bomb Michael Connelly's new book
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Old 04-13-2011, 04:36 PM   #170
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Originally Posted by bhartman36 View Post
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.
Ratings are not permanent. They can be removed and/or edited.
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