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How Amazon reviews became the new battlefield of US politics

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In the vexatious realm of online opinion, history has begun to be written not so much by the victors as the customer reviewers
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How Amazon and Goodreads could lose their best readers

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How Amazon and Goodreads could lose their best readers

 

But if, at a casual glance, the two companies — Goodreads and Amazon — seem to be made for each other, look again. A small but growing faction of longtime, deeply involved Goodreads members are up in arms about recent changes to the site’s enforcement of its policies on what members are permitted to say when reviewing books, and many of them blame the crackdown on the Amazon deal. They’ve staged a protest of sorts, albeit one that’s happening mostly out of the public eye. Their charge is censorship and their accusation is, in the words of one rebel, that Goodreads and Amazon want “to kill the vibrant, creative community that was once here, and replace it with a canned community of automaton book cheerleaders.”


Via Mary Daniels Brown
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