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The story is brilliant, so it's well worth putting up with the OCR errors, but if I'm going to write a review, then I think they have to be mentioned. |
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[QUOTE=ficbot;1688353]How are they different from air conditioners? They are a product which is sold to the customer for money, the end. Being a novel instead of an air conditioner or a widget or a loaf of bread doesn't confer upon them special status.
Okay, I'm belaboring the obvious, but you put an air-conditioner in a room and either it cools the room or it doesn't. It's noisy or it isn't. These are things that can be objectively measured. A novel moves you or it doesn't. It speaks to your experience of life and your expectations of art or it doesn't. Those things are subjective and emotional. I think that means you should approach reviewing books with some awareness of the sensitivities of others and the possible limits of your own perceptions. |
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If that was all it was about, they would only sell one brand of air conditioner. Obviously, it's more complicated than that. But as far as ebooks go, what I was responding to was the implication that a reviewer should hold back and not nitpick the formatting or opine about value for money so as not to hurt the author's feelings. In that respect, I wholeheartedly disagree. I don't believe personally in writing reviews that are cruel. But if I have constructive feedback and I express it tactfully, I feel that any comment I want to make is my privilege. The author put it out there on the marketplace for sale. If they can't handle reviews, they shouldn't have put it out there. The item being a book instead of something else doesn't change the rules of commerce for me.
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1 star for price? It's fair game if the author/publisher employed false advertising. If the book page said "novel" but but the reader got a 5,000 word short story, then the customer was cheated. If people are giving a book 1 stars because the ebook is too expensive compared to the hardcopy, then don't buy the ebook. If a neutral star rating isn't possible, then leave behind 3 stars and make the comment. |
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