Letters of Opinionbloggers / bloggers-rights / Ethics / Ethics in Reviewing / Reader Reviews / review blogs82 Comments
more animals Do you remember the movie "Election," with Reese Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick? In the first scene Mr. McAllister asks his high school class about the difference between ethics and morals. Ironically, of course, the one student who eagerly attempts to answer the question is also the one who ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / Memoirs / Reader Reviews6 Comments
Usually when Amazon reviews are penned by the family members, it is done so with the intent to bolster star rankings but maybe the most effective Amazon reviews are ones that generate controversy which in turns stir booksales. According to GalleyCat, Rachel Sontag wrote a memoir, House Rules, about growing ... more >
Letters of OpinionAmazon / Janet Evanovich / Reader Reviews67 Comments
In this political season, the candidates have received endorsements from people that they have had to “reject and denounce*”. The Good, The Bad, and the Unread, featured a promo for the September release of Double Enchantment by Kathleen Kennedy which is the second book in her Relics of Merlin series. ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / Janet Evanovich / Reader Reviews / reviews13 Comments
SB Sarah got a heads up from a Janet Evanovich fan that early reviews were disappearing from the Barnes and Noble site. Of course, the only deleted reviews were the negative ones. Google cache which preserves snapshots of past versions of a webpage showed at least two negative reviews that ... more >