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Originally Posted by caleb72
I absolutely appreciate a review that tells me an ebook has a large number of errors regardless of the number of stars given.
I'm having many more problems with 5 star reviews of books which are so full of errors that I wonder whether I'm in a different dimension than the other reviewers. The book I'm reading now is riddled with poor sentence structure, terrible word misuse and numerous errors. It received 3, 4, even 5 star reviews on Amazon and not one complaint about the poor writing within.
If it's not fair to sabotage an author with 1 star reviews based on price alone, how fair is it to praise by implication the complete butchery of a given language.
Of course, I never learn. Read the sample first, Caleb!  |
For indies, there are way more inflated reviews than negative reviews. But for one star reviews...
1 star for price? It's fair game if the author/publisher employed false advertising. If the book page said "novel" but but the reader got a 5,000 word short story, then the customer was cheated. If people are giving a book 1 stars because the ebook is too expensive compared to the hardcopy, then don't buy the ebook. If a neutral star rating isn't possible, then leave behind 3 stars and make the comment.