Quote:
Originally Posted by MGlitch
Amazon could easily allow linking a GR and Amazon account to show if someone has bought an edition of a book though. Lets not pretend that GR has remained wholly agnostic about preferred book vendors. They needn't make it a requirement, just an added bonus.
|
There’s an element here of separating the sheep from the goats that I find distasteful and calling it “an added bonus” makes it more so. What about those who borrow books, whether from the library or other people? Their reviews are somehow worth less out of the gate because they can’t (or won’t) buy books? And it only serves to make an Amazon-centric medium even more so since it excludes other purveyors and surely none of us wants
that. Really, is that you, Jeff?
This whole discussion as people tie themselves into torturous knots to come up with a plan to make reviews “legitimate” to me is prima facie evidence for why Goodreads’ policy of allowing wide-open reviews is by far the best option.