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Originally Posted by Mambo
Reviews ordered by the sellers often biased and only want to sell the book but don't give you hint what you will really get. (For example how deeply are certain topics discussed)
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This is one of the reasons the number of books I purchased has dropped. When I pick up a new book, I expect to see a short blurb describing what the book is about. If all I see is a bunch of opinions by "reviewers" (most of whom I've never heard of), then the book must be bad and I don't bother with it.
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Originally Posted by Mambo
All I am saying is that it is very important part of the selling process to convey as much information as possible that what you buy is what you need (this would be the review, temporary access, trial version with expiry, etc.)
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This is probably why books that have an eBook "presence" on the internet (like Baen) sell so well. Potential readers can, for no cost, download at least part of the book and experience it at their leisure (as opposed to reading part of it in the bookstore).
If they don't like it, they are out nothing and have a better opinion of the author than they would if they were suckered into paying $25 to get a bad book. So they are more apt to try out the author's next (and probably better) book.
Life is too short to read bad books.