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this blog on National Public Radio
Regular readers of this blog have probably read my posts from the category In The Amazone. There was a piece that just ran on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition that mentioned this blog!
I have written posts about Amazon.com’s customer reviewing system and in particular, Amazon’s NUMBER ONE reviewer, the mysterious Harriet Klausner.
The NPR piece by Martha Woodroof featured several guests who commented on Amazon’s highly successful customer reviewing feature. If you missed the piece on Morning Edition it is archived on the NPR website.
If you listen closely you will hear Martha Woodroof mention the Dayton Daily News, this blog, and Harriet Klausner. If you listen very closely, you will hear me expressing my thoughts about Harriet-my lonely voice crying in the wilderness.
Here’s a link to the NPR page that contains audio of the piece: Click here.
If you want some background on this situation with some of the Amazon top customer reviewers you can learn more by scrolling through some of my posts on this blog in the category of In The Amazone.
Some of the posts attracted a number of interesting comments. As of this post the mysterious Harriet Klausner is closing in on her 16 thousandth book review on Amazon. The second place reviewer trails Harriet by almost 10 thousand reviews. And Harriet likes every book that she reads……
Vick Mickunas
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By diesel
February 20, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this
Impressive! We want to hear more of you on wyso!By Prose
February 16, 2008 12:11 PM | Link to this
Please tell the book fairy to find a different genre. Gee, I never met a book I didn’t like. Bull S*. Go to the autobiography section, find and ex-politician or other “celebrity” tell all and hold your nose. Either this broad is lying or stupid. Probably bothBy Prose
February 16, 2008 12:11 PM | Link to this
Please tell the book fairy to find a different genre. Gee, I never met a book I didn’t like. Bull S*. Go to the autobiography section, find and ex-politician or other “celebrity” tell all and hold your nose. Either this broad is lying or stupid. Probably bothBy victor mickunas
February 11, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this
Thanks, Barbara. Thanks, Tim.By Barbara Delaney
February 11, 2008 2:33 PM | Link to this
Vick, your comment was about the only thing in the four minute report that cast any doubt on the veracity of Amazon’s top reviewers. Amazon and NPR are in bed together, corporately speaking, so I guess it wasn’t too surprising that it wasn’t a hard hitting expose of the deceitful practices that govern these so-called top reviewers.By alaskanriley
February 11, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this
Vick: I’m glad you opened this glimpse into the underside of the book world. Of course she’s a fake. How could you ever love every book?