Thread: Where's the Pandora for e-book recommendations?
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Old 09-08-2009, 10:24 AM   #27
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Which IMHO is a very very bad idea. Whats going to stop the makers of that reader to "abuse" that kind of data by planting ratings/recomendations? Or if not that, using it as a guideline for selecting what kind of author/genre they should supply?
Which is what is going on right now in various places -- including wikipedia -- on the web.

People are paid to post favorably for a particular cause.

Could be true or reviewers as well I suppose --- payola and all that sorta bad karma.
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