| You know what gets me more than anything ... they are deleting ALL negative reviews. That's astonishingly bold!
Were I shilling for Scientology, I would have deleted any serious, substantive, damaging reviews while leaving behind some token soft-ball or ill-formed reviews (reviews that make the critic look worse than the subject of his criticism.)
But they regularly erase negative reviews (Josh and I saw the number get up as far as 300) all the way down to zero. Amazon isn't even asserting the pretext of fairness. Their overt sacrifice of their own corporate image to protect the interests of Scientology is really audacious.
Here is some perspective provided by a GlossLip commenter:
Book of Mormon: 330 Reviews (5 Star - 195; 1 Star - 98)
Koran (Penguin): 75 Reviews (5 Star - 16; 1 Star - 25)
Boldtext Pew Bible KJV: 232 Reviews (5 Star - 118; 1 Star - 71)
Dianetics: 247 Reviews (5 Star - 221; 1 Star - 0)
Last edited by Aimee Weber; 04-19-2008 at 03:26 PM.
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