When I heard the Amazon for forbidding poor reviews on James Comey's book "A Higher Loyalty", I had to try it out. I loaded up the product page, selected the option to review, I was shocked when the message came up:
I don't like it when people give glowing or dismal reviews for a product when they have no experience with the product. Especially a book that the 'reviewer' hasn't read.
It should be standard policy by Amazon (like other sites) to only allow reviews by verified purchasers. My understanding is that they allow other reviews, assuming that the reviewer has used the product purchased from another source.
My issue is the double standard. For books they want to promote, they forbid reviews unless the purchase is verified. Books they don't care about? All reviews are legitimate unless contested.
AMAZON is Cooking the Books
Top positive review:
The top critical review:
I find over 500 people found this review helpful.
There are more people who found this review helpful than gave this book 5 stars!
Reading Between the Lines
I think it's obvious that if Amazon allowed all reviewers to have their say, this book would not be receiving such remarkable ratings. Most feedback I've been hearing is that it's not a very well written book. Yet Amazon is doing what it can to help promote this book by only allowing "Verified Purchasers" to leave a review on the book. This effectively prevents Comey haters to cause the ratings to plummet.
Of course, anyone willing to spend their money on this book is likely to give it a glowing review.
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