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1-star based on price is stupid. The market will dictate what people are willing to pay for. If it's a bad book it's a bad book at any price. There's so much written work out there at every price point that everyone should be able to find a lot of material there.
Horrible editing does detract from the experience. When I'm reading reviews, I read the five's to see if it just seems like pat on the back stuff, I read the one's to see if the book actual was terrible and ignore things on price, and I read the three's to see what people say about a meh kind of book. What made it not so good? What made it not so bad? I usually find the more thoughtful reviews in the middle.
There's been a lot of research on Likert scales. Five options isn't really a good number for getting the correct distribution of how people feel in many cases. It would be nice if Amazon moved to 7 for the scale which would be a little more valuable.
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