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taglines · 11-05-2009, 12:13 AM

Adam Penenberg, author of a new book titled "Viral Loop: From Facebook to Twitter, How Today's Smartest Businesses Grow Themselves," is a journalism professor at at New York University. On a recent post at FastCompany's website, he spoke of how hard it is to get reviews for your books in today's media landscape, for both print books and ebooks together. At one point in his commentary, he talks about how "reviewers" on amazon's website sometimes say good things, resulting in 5 stars and sometimes say bad things, resulting in 1 star review, and some of the comments by "reviewers" border on you know what:

"...On my Amazon page, Frank Todaro, from Houston, Texas, gave my book a negative 1-star rating. Was it my research? My prose? My theories? No, he hasn't even read the book. He panned it because Amazon priced the e-book version above $9.99. "Why is the Kindle version too expensive?" Todaro wrote. "Do not buy this book till the Kindle version is priced correctly."

Penenberg's response to this?

"Dear Amazon: Please lower the price of the Kindle version of Viral Loop to $9.99. Hey, Frank Todaro! I'm the frickin' author, not Jeff Bezos. Take it up with him. In the meantime, don't buy the Kindle version if you can't afford fourteen lousy bucks, but don't blame the author for pricing. We have nothing to do with it."

11-05-2009, 12:13 AM	#1
taglines Banned Posts: 96 Karma: 334 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: nook	"Do not buy this book till the Kindle version is priced correctly!" --WTF? Adam Penenberg, author of a new book titled "Viral Loop: From Facebook to Twitter, How Today's Smartest Businesses Grow Themselves," is a journalism professor at at New York University. On a recent post at FastCompany's website, he spoke of how hard it is to get reviews for your books in today's media landscape, for both print books and ebooks together. At one point in his commentary, he talks about how "reviewers" on amazon's website sometimes say good things, resulting in 5 stars and sometimes say bad things, resulting in 1 star review, and some of the comments by "reviewers" border on you know what: "...On my Amazon page, Frank Todaro, from Houston, Texas, gave my book a negative 1-star rating. Was it my research? My prose? My theories? No, he hasn't even read the book. He panned it because Amazon priced the e-book version above $9.99. "Why is the Kindle version too expensive?" Todaro wrote. "Do not buy this book till the Kindle version is priced correctly." Penenberg's response to this? "Dear Amazon: Please lower the price of the Kindle version of Viral Loop to $9.99. Hey, Frank Todaro! I'm the frickin' author, not Jeff Bezos. Take it up with him. In the meantime, don't buy the Kindle version if you can't afford fourteen lousy bucks, but don't blame the author for pricing. We have nothing to do with it." Last edited by taglines; 11-05-2009 at 12:17 AM.