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Originally Posted by Arrghus
While it must be tough on authors to see 1-star reviews that make no comment on the literary merit of their work, I nevertheless support those who give a 1-star reviews because of genuine disappointment with things like formatting, and typographical errors. Reviews can be retracted, so the onus is then on the author and/or publisher to correct these errors and therefore kindly ask for the reviewer to retract their review.
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A while back, I read a book that had some typos, and I left a review that mentioned them. It was a self-published book, and I e-mailed the author with the mistakes I'd found. He fixed them and asked me to alter my review to reflect that, which I was happy to do.
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Originally Posted by Arrghus
That said, now that nearly every book has a preview on Kindle, there's less excuse to leave a bad review for formatting, when the formatting can be sampled quite easily.
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I'm currently reading a book that has obviously been scanned & OCR'd. It's a great book, one that I read on paper some years ago. As soon as I saw there was a Kindle edition I snapped it up. Once I've finished it, I'll leave a review, and mention the OCR errors.
The story is brilliant, so it's well worth putting up with the OCR errors, but if I'm going to write a review, then I think they have to be mentioned.