Anne R. Allen has a good post/collection of links about the paid-reviews scandal. She points out that certain types of gatekeeping (in her examples, the requirement that a book have a certain number of 4- or 5-star reviews) can encourage abuse, which I have noticed, too. That's a tough one, because people typically set these systems up with the hope of weeding out bad books, but then if the system is easy to game....
Published on September 02, 2012 10:11