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April 17, 2008 by Mad

For the last week or so, there has been a huge discussion on Dear Author about how a certain author is bullying reviewers and manipulating the reviews at Amazon so that only her 5 star reviews are shown. Anything less than 5 stars she gets Amazon to remove. Because I feel we have to take a stand and let this author know we won’t stand for her sneaky and shameful ways, I’m sharing a petition Jane at Dear Author started. We’re asking Amazon to change the way they run the site when it comes to reviewing books. Please go read it and sign it. This author has got to be stopped. If she feels the need to track down a reviewer’s personal info because of a 3 star review and imply threats to the reviewer, her family, even her CHILDREN, I wonder what she’ll do should she ever get a 1 star review? Anyone remember the movie Psycho? That shower scene? Cue the theme music because that’s all I keep thinking about right now.

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on April 18, 2008 at 11:53 am | Reply Colleen

Wow this is the first I have heard about this… that is horrible… how someone can be that way… thanks for bringing this up in today’s blog!!!
on April 18, 2008 at 12:01 pm | Reply Stefanie D

I hadn’t heard anything about it either.
I’m absolutely going to sign that petition. The way she acts is ridiculous!
on April 18, 2008 at 12:14 pm | Reply fedora

Fatin, thanks for posting this–I’ve been following this on DA and this is just appalling.
on April 18, 2008 at 12:53 pm | Reply brownone

Why would you alienate your readers? With ANY book an author writes, there will be people who like your book or dislike it. And the last time I checked, the first amendment was still part of the constitution so why would she threaten someone in that manner for exercising her rights? AND, she did say she enjoyed the author’s writing in the past. As for me, this just turned me off from this author and I personally would never spend a dime to support this author EVER…not even from the UBS if that is the type of treatment she gives her readers.
on April 18, 2008 at 2:45 pm | Reply Mad

Brownone — I was so disgusted in what she did that I pulled off her books from the TBR…had planned to take them to the UBS but the more I read about what she did, the more I got mad and I finally just ripped the books and chucked them into the garbage bin….it’s take a lot to make me mad and for me to treat books that way but she’s completely over the edge and I no longer wanted her books in my house.
on April 19, 2008 at 1:02 am | Reply limecello

I’ve been following this, and it makes me so sad. I never knew things like that happened and I feel so disillusioned. I’ve signed the petition and…
Dear God. A 1 star review? That person would have to join the witness protection program!
on April 21, 2008 at 2:20 pm | Reply Melissa

I just saw this over on Smart Bitches, Fatin. Off to sign it. I couldn’t agree more.