Amazon suing fake reviewers

Snowdog
Wed, 21 Oct 2015 16:13:58 +0000

@nottelling, the comparison with the NYT book review section isn’t useful. The NYT reviewers are not reviewing because they get free stuff, they are doing so as they are salaried by an entity not connected with the publisher.

That said, the Vine problem isn’t mainly with the books, it is with most of what Amazon sells nowadays: non-book products. You won’t convince me that people who are showered with free items to review - they get some choice in what they receive - are analyzing their worth in the same way as someone who spent her or his own hard-earned money to buy said items.