Sunday, May 13, 2007

Dayton Book Nook: How do you decide to buy a book?

New post by Vick Mickunas:

"“We need much more of a direct relationship with our readers,” said Susan Rabiner, an agent and a former editorial director. [...] “Before Amazon, we didn’t even know what people thought of the books,”

"Ah, those Amazon customer reviewers. As we have seen in some previous entries on this blog, the Amazon customer reviewer system has problems. Reviews are being posted there in large numbers by reviewers who cannot possibly be reading the books that they claim to be reviewing. [...] "

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4 comments:

KT Grant said...

I like how you posted under the title of this blog over at the Dayton site. Kudos!!

Malleus said...

You bet :-) . We need promotion! Like an HK review would likely put it, this be guerilla marketing.

KT Grant said...

You should ask Vick to join our blog. Maybe he will write about it.
Heh heh evil laugh....

Malleus said...

I did, right at the very beginning.