NPR produced a piece on Amazon reviewing; even Harriet Klausner has been mentioned. Here it is.
Also, somewhat relevant, check out this article: Booksellers Upset Over NPR’s Amazon Link.
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A few thoughts from the outside
- Amazon Book Reviews, by David Streitfeld (nytimes.com)
- Harriet Klausner's reviews (sffworld.com)
- Who Is Grady Harp? By Garth Risk Hallberg (Slate.com)
- Payola, disclosure and disclaimers
- The Harriet Files (Scrubbles.net)
- Why John T. Reed does not sell his books on Amazon any more (a.k.a. Amazon “fixes” review problem)
- Suspicious Voting Activity on Amazon
- Klausnerphobic Harping, by Vick Mickunas, June 9, 2007
- Amazon.com Reviews: More Than Meets the Eye?
- Harriet Klausner, by Amazon's Lowest Rated Viewer
- The mysterious Harriet Klausner, by Vick Mickunas, March 29, 2007
- A top Amazon reviewer bites the dust, by Vick Mickunas, April 20, 2007
- The Evil Eyebrow: Harriet Klausner
- From Dancing Badger: The Bookstore That Corrupted Hadleyburg
- Here's a shocker... (The Klausner Post)
- Bogus book reviews on Amazon.com? By Vick Mickunas, April 4, 2007
- The Book Bitches: Harriet Klausner Must Be Stopped
- Six Degrees of Reputation: The Use And Abuse of Online Recommendation Systems, research by Shay David
- Six degrees of Reputation... [download PDF]
- Kottke.org: The top reviewer at Amazon
- Amazon Seller Community: Thread: Harriet Klausner
- Amazon.com book reviewer shakeout, by Vick Mickunas, April 14, 2007
- Harriett Klausner Revealed
- Comments section:drood: Klausner generally reads the back cover...
- Klausner Gives Book Only 3 Stars!
- Duffbert's Random Musings
See No Evil a.k.a. Mainstream Media Puff Pieces
Our friends Top Reviewers
- 1. Harriet Klausner (of course!)
- 2. Grady Harp (unwilling victim of mysterious voting thaumaturgy)
- 3. W. Boudville (shy and quiet, but reads A LOT! Not always understands tho)
- 4. Robert Morris (reads and highlights a book a day)
- 5. Mark-O (Columbus, Ohio) (Excellent! Excellent! Excellent! This is a great book... and I sell it too!)
- 6. John Matlock "Gunny" (no longer top reviewer, but what the hell... every book 5 stars, guaranteed)
- Amazon Top Reviewers Page
- Harriet at "Genre Go Round Reviews"
- Harriet Klausner @ Alternative Worlds
- Harriet Klausner @ The Best Reviews !
- Harriet Klausner Reviews [own site]
- Harriet Klausner blogs on blogger.com
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More (not so) random thoughts about HK (and related)
- Man, do I hate Harriet Klausner
- NPR Morning Edition on Amazon reviews
- Harriet Klausner redux… redux?
- ... the sham of a review engine that is Harriet Klausner...
- Is this Amazon Top 10 reviewer pulling our leg?
- My Elves Are Different
- Scam of the Month, from A Writer's Life
- Ethics and Reviews
- Free Harriet!
- On Harriet Klausner (or Everyone Hates Harold Bloom)
- .. and, best of all, absolutely nothing from Harriet Klausner.
- Juno Books blog
- Amazon Reviewer Ranking
- Views on Reviews
- Stifling discussion on the Amazon discussion board?
- The Enigma that is Harriet Klausner
- Yo. Time. We’re Over Here.
- Are they on crack?
- Just Another Pretty Farce
- Dumb Ass Historical Romance Has Nothing On Me ..
- What's up with these Top Reviewers?
- Take a ride to my block
- Amazon reviewers
- The secret to being Amazon's #1 reviewer.
- On 04/27/07 W. Boudville read four books
- The Amazon.com conspiracy
- OK, I Admit It: I’m Harriet Klausner
- Free Harriet!
Miscellaneous
- NYT: The Greatest Mystery: Making a Best Seller
- The Greatest Mystery: Making a Best Seller (alternative source)
- Book Nook Amazonia
- Dangerous reviews on Amazon
- Midwest Book Review talks about Amazon.com
- LA Times: Not everybody's a critic, by Richard Schickel
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- HKAS Private Pages (registration required)
7 comments:
What a huge disappointment! The expert quoted who said it was "a democratization" of reviewing practices and that it was "changing and challenging" the status quo could not have been more wrong. A system like Amazons which crowns and enshrines fakes like Harp and Klausner is not bringing about a level playing field. Vick's quote was a breath of fresh air, the rest was ....well, not particularly eye-opening. The quote from the Amazon employee was laughable. I intend to respond to NPR.
I especially liked the combination of this guy talking about how HK reviewed 15K books, all of them good, and then some 'Top Reviewer' spliced in saying, well, that funny old thing: that she doesn't review bad books. Oh, but that explains everything... Harriet has reviewed 15,000 books (actually it's more like 16K now), and that absurd number DOES NOT include the bad books she read? So she read even more books? Some journalism.
I'm curious why they did not have HK make a little comment. They got one from Gail Cooke and she is what? Number 4? It seems like they would have wanted one from their impressive number one reviewer. I was diappointed.
Booksellers Upset Over NPR’s Amazon Link.
L. Fleisig posted a curious link in Harp comments, check it out: http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6456353.html . There may be a reason for NPR's fatuousness.
Edward R. Murrow, it wasn't. All the news that's fit to print, in the hands of NPR, has become pretty much just all the news that fits.
What a slap in the face to independent book sellers. These small book stores support their local public radio and then NPR links to Amazon, what a typical corporate move. NPR worsens by the day, soon they can link directly to Mall-Wart, your source for cheap plastic crap.
Another let down, except for the bit from Nick. What's needed is a seriously ambitious reporter, especially one who's willing to ask some serious questions.
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