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A Brief Rant on Bad Reviewers

Posted on April 4, 2012

Lord knows independent authors couldn’t survive without the wonderful amateur book reviewers on sites like Amazon, Goodreads, and Librarything.com. I love my thoughtful reviewers (the 2-stars and 5-stars alike) and often thank them for their time. If I ever hit it big in e-publishing, it will be because of them.

But there’s a particular kind of reviewer that drives me crazy. Their approach or conception of what it is to rate or review a book is deeply flawed, unfair, and–frankly–unhelpful to other readers. I’ve boiled down what bothers me about this kind of reviewer in a simple statement:

Your dislike for a genre or format does not constitute a fair criticism of a work.

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Posted in: Art and Obligation | Tagged: amazon, author, critique, ebook, goodreads, librarything, rant, reviewer, writing

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