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Originally Posted by Hitch
My pet peeve is people using the word "blurb" when they mean "description." A blurb, traditionally, is not the damned description. It's a BLURB. A blurb is a comment or praise from some authority, whether it's Stephen King or the NYTimes' Book Review. Yes--before anyone jumps in--I know that the OED allows that "blurb" can be a short, eulogistic description by a publisher. Nonetheless, in the biz, historically, a blurb is not the description, (as in the description field on Amazon's website); it's the praise.
Offered solely FWIW.
@Cinsajoy:
You said:
A review from where, exactly? I ask because Amazon (and B&N, etc.) state pretty clearly that once you've written a review on their site, they own it, not you, so an author wouldn't be doing anything spectacularly wrong in using that content. Do you have a review site, is that the thing? Usually, at least, in trade publishing, a published review, is pretty much fair game.
If, in this thread, we are discussing descriptions, I have a list of stuff that will put me off a book in a New York second.
Hitch
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I would bet you are correct that it is in the seller's T&C that reviews are owned by Amazon.
But the customer can change the review since there is an edit and delete button for the reviewer.
It would make sense that Amazon doesn't want the reviews used elsewhere.