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Originally Posted by Rev. Bob
The way I see it, if I'm using that sort of standard for my own reviews, the source shouldn't matter too much. If anything, a "free for review" bias is likely to show up in the editing scale, where I might give the author a heads-up and a chance to fix the problems. That happened a while back, where I started reading a FFR book and contacted the author after a couple of chapters. I'd found several severe mechanical problems that would necessitate a bad review, including a spoilerific preface and a double flashback, and I honored the request that I not proceed further. I still hope the author does a rewrite; the story looked like it had potential.
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Don't you think that potential buyers deserve to be told about such issues? There's surely more need to post a review warning people about such problems than one simply saying "It's OK", isn't there? That was precisely the point I made at the start of the thread about getting the book free introducing bias. Your bias of not posting a bad review of a flawed product is doing people who pay money for it a disservice, to my mind.