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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.
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I don't think she is a front for a publisher. For one, it would have been noted a long time ago that all her reviews were of books released by Publisher X. And I don't think it's a group of publishers, either, because they're in competition with each other. I don't see them sitting down and jointly creating such an elaborate scheme.
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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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I think this is closer to the truth. A group of people who decided on this 'review' scam a while back. Perhaps it started as some sort of weird joke, and has since morphed into an actual operation that involves receiving money from someone or the other to post.
The question, of course, is who? Again, I don't think it's any of the major publishers. The chances of destroying their reputation should word get out is a risk I don't see them taking. So who, then? Who on Earth could possibly benefit from this? The authors themselves? I feel the same way about that as with publishers.
Who could be making money off this? Maybe we're wrong, and nobody actually is. Maybe this isn't an actual operation, or at least not a profitable one. Maybe, for some reason, a group of people decided years ago to play the weirdest and most pointless prank on the industry.