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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
And on top of that, let's say that they stopped the worthless-to-me practice of hosting anonymous reviews and instead linked to professional signed book reviews at sites like nybooks.com?*
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This would never happen on a site which sells merchandise. Amateur reviews are ignored by customers; at least the reviews, both good and bad, are consumed with a grain of salt.
Amazon presumably owns imdb.com, which links to professional reviews of films. This has not stopped bad movies from being made, viewed or bought.
We cannot account for tastes, and educating people is hopeless, and in some cases, elitist.