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Originally Posted by Gandulf
I don't trust Goodreads ratings, how can they rate books that are not even out yet, found a few books.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Goodreads should not allow comments and ratings before the book is released unless it's a real rating with a proper review for an ARC copy or an advanced final version. Allowing ratings and conversation in the reviews mucks up the works.
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No point in trying to hang more weight on Goodreads’ ratings and reviews than they can bear. It’s a useful tool and pretty transparent at that. It also helps to remember the ultimate beneficiary of all that activity, i.e., Amazon. Not that it’s easy to forget, given how promotions have taken over the home page to the exclusion of most of the useful information for the user.