Big Brother Amazon

[Paul Whybrow]

This story is in today's Guardian newspaper. I kind of understand Amazon's desire to weed out bogus reviews of their products, but this new restriction on what makes a friend of the author is absurd.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/20...big-brother-tactics-customer-reviews-jas-ward

 

[Nicole Wilson]

As I imagine some of us have strong feelings about Amazon one way or another, you might want to move this to the back room so only us members can see our responses.

 

[Paul Whybrow]

As I imagine some of us have strong feelings about Amazon one way or another, you might want to move this to the back room so only us members can see our responses.

Good point. I just signed the petition against Amazon's intrusion into the lives of writers. It's frightening how corporations run the world these days, with governments ignoring or assisting their activities.

 

[Carol Rose]

I agree. I'm cyber and real life friends with plenty of authors, bloggers, and reviewers. Doesn't mean their reviews and mine aren't legit, though. It's crap. Amazon wants to rule the world.

 

[Alistair Roberts]

Ditto to all the above comments!

 

[Meerkat]

The article says it all: if you're indie, then you rely on social media, and if you're "friends" with someone on social media, what then?