Re: Betrügerische Vermarktung von Büchern

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zwuggeline

Registriert seit: 14.08.2006

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hehe, ich habe mal bei barnes and noble geguckt – die sind inzwischen auch auf den trichter gekommen:

Caveat Emptor — and Lector too
The writer is a consummate shill artist who posted over a hundred phony customer reviews on Amazon.com before they finally pulled his book, and he will probably try to do the same here. Not content with faking customer reviews, he also posted false ‚editorial reviews‘ from Dan Brown, Stephen King, ‚The Saturday Review‘ and George Knickerbocker of ‚The New York Times‘. After several members of the Amazon discussion board alerted Mr. King via his website, he ordered Amazon to remove the the encomium he had never given. ‚The Saturday Review‘ had ceased publication in 1986, and Mr. Knickerbocker, who supposedly gave a glowing ‚review‘ to Mr. Kostantinos‘ book, has been dead for forty years. p The author also posted a notice on the product page for his book on Amazon that he was donating all the royalties from this book to his favorite charity, a charity that turns out to be a figment of his overactive imagination. There’s a descriptive word for all these shenanigans and it’s spelled F-R-A-U-D. p As for the book itself — well, if you want to wade through 100 pages of incredibly bad writing, sloppy editing, bad spelling, bad grammar, etc., I can think of several better things to do — one of which is staying away from this piece of claptrap altogether or, if you’ve already wasted your money on it, returning it to wherever you got it from and demanding your money back. Or, if the store won’t take it back, exercise your third option, which is to toss it into the nearest garbage can.

@cassavetes
der spruch von robbie williams ist wirklich zutreffend…und deine signatur einfach göttlich!

:-)

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