[rgoulde]

Lots of good arguements here and justified frustration but it didn't impact on me what the result of artificial low rating would be until I was looking for books (audio format) recently and passed on a very good book because of it's low ratings. Luckily someone recommended the book to me later and I bought it and it turned out to be one of the best books I'd read recently. In reviewing all of the ratings several people posted that the delay was why they rated it low. Seems like artificially twisting the ratings hurts readers (as well as authors) as much as publishers - sort of cutting off our nose to spite our face.