Amazon Abuse iPetition
Apr 17th, 2008 by Lynne
I’m usually not much of a petition-signer, but in this case, I made an exception. Last week, Dear Author broke a story about how a gang of romance writers has been gaming the Amazon system to inflate their books’ ratings and to fraudulently have reviews lower than five stars removed by reporting them as abusive content. The story of how these people stalked a reviewer is mind-boggling, and the owners of Dear Author have put together an iPetition** to urge Amazon and the relevant state authorities to investigate and to implement policies that will help discourage these abusive practices in future.
Like one DA commenter said, the way these people behaved is “boil your bunny” crazy.
** When you see the screen asking for a donation, close it. Your vote has already been recorded at that point. There’s no fee to sign the petition.
