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Originally Posted by Neverwhere
In May 2014, the third book in the Selection trilogy will be released: The One by Kiera Cass. I'm looking forward to it. The cover hasn't been designed, the book hasn't been written, and there are evidently no ARC copies available. Despite this, it has 305 ratings and a 4.55 star average. This seems to happen far more often with YA than the other genres which I read.
I don't mind people using star ratings for their expectations of a book, but this skews the usefulness of average ratings on GoodReads. If people are submitting an early rating or review, I would appreciate GoodReads implementing a method to ensure that they're reviewing the actual book: for example, if it's an ARC, either scan in the barcode (on a physical book), or quote something specific from the copyright page (on an ebook); they already have barcode scanning implemented.
If the book then isn't an ARC, users can continue to rate books early for their own purposes, but those ratings are restricted to themselves and their friends / followers. The general public, such as myself, can quietly wait for ARC ratings without having our most highly anticipated finalés rated hundreds of times before they've even been written.
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Many, many legit reviewers on GR and other places mention if they have an ARC or if their copy was an ARC. Not that anyone wants to have to scroll through 305 reviews to figure out if there are any legit reviews...