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Originally Posted by jplumey
I was under the impression you couldn't review an Amazon product unless you purchased it from them.
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Wow I guess that's changed. I followed the link to write a review and it let me! I didn't actually write a review though.
I remember a while back trying to do this and it complained that I couldn't review it unless I had purchased it through them. I guess that has changed.
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Yep. If you look at the early reviews on the Kindle it's really shocking how much of it was just flaming from people who had never bought one. It had hundreds of reviews before anyone had even received their orders. There were tech blogs telling people to go over and give it a bad review because of DRM. You'll notice a lot of books are tagged "defectivebydesign". That's part of their whole anti-Kindle campaign.
Sony never attracted that attention even though they had their own book store selling DRM-ed books. Now they support e-pub but that's a recent step.