These infractions can occur anywhere online, of course, but it is Amazon that has championed the consumer review as a substantial element of online commerce. The Howse camp uses lines such as “nobody trusts online reviews anyway” and “this has been going on for years” and “why are you so surprised?” And they seem surprised, themselves, to find others taking the problem seriously and talking of how it has defrauded readers, authors, and - as the largest retailer - Amazon. Howse and those who agree with him seem to be bent on dodging and diminishing what others see as an outright crisis. That is naivety taken to a self-deluding extreme. This is “fraudulent and damaging to publishing”, say a small battalion of well-known authors – Joanne Harris, Ian Rankin, Susan Hill, and dozens more – in a letter to the Telegraph. His take on the widening scandal reveals a peculiar division showing up in the industry! the industry! - not one we might have expected to see in a business already ragged with the disruption of the digital dynamic. His story is called Ignore the sock puppets, they won’t bite you. They’re the work of Christopher Howse at The Telegraph. I’d hoped not to lead this week’s Ether with this fraudulent reviews business. Authors who give their own books glowing reviews are nothing new. And I’m delighted to see Dear Author now using bylines at the tops of stories, in part as a result of our chats on this point.Ĭalm down. In fact, the post is by “Robin Reader,” as she’s known on the site - AKA “Janet.” I’ve updated references to her here on the Ether, with apologies for my initial oversight. Last Gas: Our Strange Addictions / Ingram, McCue, Hrehaįraudulent Reviews: Beside the Point / Howse, Duns, Retzenbrink, Charman-Anderson, “Robin Reader”Ī correction: In my original references in this item to a post at Dear Author, I incorrectly referred to that post’s dear author as the perspicacious Jane Litte.Books and Conference Notes: Reading on the Ether.Essays: Here’s Looking at Her / Friedman.Book: About the Book / O’Leary, McGuire.Disgrace: End of the Lehrer Line / Boog, Seife, Hansen, Moos, O’Leary.Publishers: Author Ego Services? / Eagar, Mayer, Shatzkin.Fraudulent Reviews: Beside the Point / Howse, Duns, Retzenbrink, Charman-Anderson, “Robin Reader”.
With words and language from southern Missouri hills, Malone takes us into the romantic backwoods of moon, creek, and mountain, but ultimately leads us to life - “it’s blue light, barely seen.” Ozark summer heat to winter blizzards, long-lasting love grips these poems.
Poems rich in romance, life, and nature, Seasons in Love journeys through four seasons and through love that breaks and sustains us.
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