Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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  • 9 comments
msstacy13

msstacy13

November 3 2012, 12:37:02 UTC 8 years ago

As you know, Bob,
I was recently proven wrong about the Supreme Court's First Sale Doctrine case,
so maybe I'll be proven wrong again.
I'll risk it.
As yet, none of my reviews of other books have been removed,
nor have reviews of my books by other authors been removed.

Apparently, this censorship only applies to "sweetheart" reviews,
by authors sharing a publisher.
I could be wrong.
Anyone? Anyone?
siege

siege

November 3 2012, 16:29:48 UTC 8 years ago

I haven't done any research except reading the linked post, and it says this is happening even without a shared publisher.
msstacy13

msstacy13

November 3 2012, 16:58:00 UTC 8 years ago

Thank you.
ysabetwordsmith

Well...

ysabetwordsmith

November 3 2012, 17:29:47 UTC 8 years ago

If so, that may narrow the focus, but does not remove the problem. Consider that a vast majority of books are published by a very small number of publishers, so that many-many authors would be in the same category.

Also, a big part of the problem is Amazon's refusal to communicate. That's not restricted to this complaint; it's a broad company policy that appears in almost every incident. When something goes wrong, individuals are usually out of luck; the company will not respond with any meaningful information about what happened, why, or how to fix it. That is always a bad thing.
msstacy13

Re: Well...

msstacy13

November 3 2012, 18:08:02 UTC 8 years ago

Thank you.
wyld_dandelyon

wyld_dandelyon

November 3 2012, 19:22:15 UTC 8 years ago

What? Like writers don't read?

That's all ****** up!
technoshaman

technoshaman

November 3 2012, 22:15:43 UTC 8 years ago

Matter of fact the reviews I rely on most are by someone who is herself an author...

I encourage anyone who does creative stuff to make their stuff available outside of Amazon, because I won't do business with them. Not to say they can't make it available on Amazon *too*, I just won't buy it there. Much prefer buying cash (or card) on the barrelhead... 'specially if it's physical media, that way I can get it signed too :)
endlessrarities

endlessrarities

November 9 2012, 17:43:31 UTC 8 years ago

What if you leave a review, THEN get a book published, thus becoming an author??
ysabetwordsmith

Well...

ysabetwordsmith

November 9 2012, 20:59:19 UTC 8 years ago

Presumably they'll delete your reviews. It's a very bad call in an age when more and more people are becoming writers now that the publishing bottleneck is breaking up.