Schneier on Ebook Fraud

[murraypaul]

Originally Posted by Giggleton

But to answer your question, the interested parties could also be the set of all users, any controversial review would be flagged by a user and then responded to. If a user flags reviews repeatedly which ultimately should not have been flagged, determined by the votes of the interested parties, the original review flagger would lose their review flagging privileges and possibly monies from affiliate sales, if referrer tracking on books was enabled and I think that it should be.

This is known as the tyranny of the majority.

[Giggleton]

Originally Posted by murraypaul

This is known as the tyranny of the majority.

Do you think the tyranny of the minority is better? At least the majority contains the thoughts of more people.

We know what happens with virtually no controls on uploaded content, tons of garbage. Making it harder to find the gems.

[Worldwalker]

Better "harder" than "not at all".

[osnova]

Originally Posted by =X=

@osnova Do you have a bishop's imprimatur approval for the Catholic bible you are selling?

That would be a big boon if you did, right now I'm using a PDF that is an exact copy of the original, but it would be even better to have the Kindle version.


=X=

This is not really on topic but a short reply is "no" I don't have the imprimatur on the exact electronic copy; however, the pdf that I worked from did have imprimatur.

[osnova]

The topic has broadened. I would be happy with any efforts from Amazon (and especially from B&N because it's worse over there) to reduce fake reviews (whether 5-star or 1-star).

[Giggleton]

Originally Posted by Worldwalker

Better "harder" than "not at all".

I'm not sure what you're referring to, perhaps that an ebook hooligan will reject a book so that it does not interfere with the promotion of their own book?

If a book is rejected it will immediately be sent to twice as many reviewers as before, so that it can be better determined if the book should actually be rejected. If the book fails this rejection test, (meaning it passes review) The original rejector will be banned from the review system. It might be harsh but it might also work, only one way to find out

[mr ploppy]

Originally Posted by Giggleton

I'm not sure what you're referring to, perhaps that an ebook hooligan will reject a book so that it does not interfere with the promotion of their own book?

If a book is rejected it will immediately be sent to twice as many reviewers as before, so that it can be better determined if the book should actually be rejected. If the book fails this rejection test, (meaning it passes review) The original rejector will be banned from the review system. It might be harsh but it might also work, only one way to find out

We only just got rid of one bunch of talentless hacks deciding what people are allowed to read, we shouldn't be in any hurry to replace them.

[Giggleton]

Originally Posted by mr ploppy

We only just got rid of one bunch of talentless hacks deciding what people are allowed to read, we shouldn't be in any hurry to replace them.

All books will still be available, this is just about marketing marketable books and allowing people to read them before purchasing.