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Originally Posted by luqmaninbmore
Why don't they just ban "her" then?
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Because acknowledging they were fooled (there were quite a few online interviews with her back in the day) would presumably be more embarrassing. I think Amazon figured it was easier to plug a hole in the ranking system and quietly get rid of her at the same time -- 2 birds, 1 stone.
Not how I would have done it, but that's just me.
Theoretically, by failing to declare that "she" is receiving books for free in exchange for review, "she" is probably in violation of the Blogger/Reviewer Disclosure Law that was passed however many months ago, but I doubt that anyone is going to spend the money to get rid of "her" and protect the customers.
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Originally Posted by abookreader
That's always been my confusion though - if she is a "front" that has been set up by the publishers to promote books, then why do so many of her reviews have such glaring errors such as getting the plot or the names of the characters wrong? If the Publishers were writing the reviews and sending them along to her, it seems like they'd do a better job.
I'm fairly convinced that it is somebody or a group of somebodies that is making money from it somehow, but I'm clueless as to how the operation works. And it seems like by now somebody in Publishing would have spilled the secrets.
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It IS very puzzling. Blurbs DO sometimes get details wrong (and often spoil endings! grr!) but she has a level of Fail that is quite surprising at times.