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Old 11-11-2010, 02:51 PM   #31
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Yes, the helpful/unhelpful button system is abused. There are reviewers who have followings of their own, and are trying to attain Top 100 ranking because then the publishers will send them free books. They encourage their own followers to click "helpful" buttons on their reviews--whether or not they intend to purchase the book in question. In that way, useless reviews by people who cannot understand the book get highly ranked.

I rarely review at Amazon anymore. The system is very much broken.
Cripes I wonder why they go to all of the effort for free books. If you have a half-way decent blog - the publishers will come to you offering free books anyway.
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Old 11-11-2010, 04:54 PM   #32
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I would imagine being a Top 100 reviewer is also desirable. Probably should have put that in originally--but I found one who admitted she was looking forward to the free books.
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