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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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6 comments:
Nice catch, Sneaky!
Wonder how she faked the AVP badge on Amazon for her fake review? Perhaps she preordered it and then canceled it... I'll bet she got BOTH copies free.
Also, wonder why she's selling the two copies for different prices?
What a fraud!
Well duh, I must've confused this with a different book...
She just dumped her fake review of THIS book today and of course it has no AVP badge.
WHAT was I thinking?!
This is a big no-no with publishers. Just saying. Also, Harriet never disappoints.
While I don't think anyone has ever said that selling free advance copies of books is Harriet's only source of income, having TWO of the same books means that Harriet may frequently get more than one copy of a book from different sources, (e.g., author, publicist, agent, editor, publisher . . . ). It means that she gets two to three times the income per review. That's certainly an interesting facet that hasn't been explored yet.
Oops! Forgot. GREAT JOB, Sneaks.
Embee, I agree.
I believe that, in her heyday, Harriet was receiving many, many more books than she fake reviewed, as well as duplicates and triplicates of the same books. Remember, she was posting an average of almost eight fake reviews a day, or 56 per week. My guess is she was receiving four or five times that many free books.
So, let's conservatively say she was getting 150-200 books a week (and she used to get mostly hardbacks). Resale values were much higher back then, before ebooks. That's a whole lotta dough, and doesn't count all the other revenue sources she has from publishers, websites, etc.
So sad to see her income decreasing these days (NOT).
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