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Originally Posted by Pushka
But at this very moment, it is the author who is wearing all this orchestrated and damaging revolt, not the publisher!
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Are they? I haven't found any of these 1-star reviews yet, but then I don't buy either new books nor ebooks from Amazon (at least not very often) so I probably wouldn't see them. From the comments in this thread though, the reviews apparently specify that this the publishers who are being castigated-not the authors.
Perhaps I'm wrong. Perhaps the reviewers are blaming the authors for the delay. Or maybe the problem is that authors are seeing the 1-star review & not reading the comments.
It's doubtful, IMO, that these 1-star ratings are hurting sales so they really aren't hurting the authors-who can't make the sale anyway because of their publisher's policies. (If anybody's hurting the authors in that case it's the publisher.) Of course that assumes that most people do as I do with Amazon reviews, i.e. read the comments first & then decide whether or not the rating has relevance to me. If I were considering purchasing a new pbook then a low rating caused by it not being available as an ebook simply wouldn't be relevant to me. But maybe you're assuming that people don't actually read the reviews. If that's true then I'd have to agree that these ratings are hurting sales-the question then is how *else* can pressure be applied to the publishers?