See the play on book lips in this image. Clever.
How appropriate is the above statement? Quite relevant I think now that Amazon has come under attack from readers and authors alike for its draconian policy in retention of scathing book reviews. If goods are downgraded, and books are trade goods aren't they? And if Amazon is there to profit from sale of goods why does it allow people to walk through its virtual doors and post virtual DON'T PURCHASE THIS ITEM reviews? If I were a bookstore owner and random people walked into my bookstore to place memo-stickers with claims this book is garbage I would be sorely pissed off. My bookstore would be there to sell books and for me to make a profit. So when I stop and think about that equation it makes me ponder the sanity of a bookstore where the owner allows stick-it memos to prevent sales. Amazon is littered with damaging memos in the form of book reviews and comments and it's utter insanity for any store to adopt this type of ludicrous policy. Can you imagine Cornflake fanatics going to the local store to post anti stickers to a rival product and what other customers would think in seeing those stickers? Yes. They'd think a lunatic was on the loose. Say no more. I've given up posting book reviews at Amazon on the basis my opinion is my opinion and someone else must judge the book on their own reading ability. It seems as though one heck of a lot of readers are illiterate in their choice of books read. Why else are there hyped books with hundreds of top rate reviews and the actual books are of low grade literary standard. Amazon resembles a second hand book shop with bundled bargains and publisher knock-down deals. Bit of a jumble in reality. Dead choosy on what I read from now on. Trusted too much in others opinions of a good read. Not any more.
