Amazon reviews, Part Two: How Amazon is destroying indie publishing…

Don’t get me wrong—I know Amazon is a business. The management there has adopted policies they think will maximize their profits. My complaint is that they also pretend they are helping indie publishers and indie authors. I’m not saying that doesn’t happen some of the time, but they are certainly inconsistent. They adapt policies and inconsistently apply them. Reviews are a case in point, as we saw in Part One.

There is another aspect of their review policy—past, present, but hopefully not fut...