As NYT exposes paid reviews, Bing Liu claims one third of online consumer reviews are fake

Reblogged from Indie BookSpot: The New York Times has an interesting article by David Streitfeld this weekend titled The Best Book Reviews Money Can Buy, exploring the murky world of paid reviews. Streitfeld comes up with some interesting information about how paid reviews have helped various self-published writers become top-selling authors, and there’s also a [...]