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Re:Amazon changes its review policy by dingaling on Thursday December 14, 2017 @12:08PM (#15924039)
> The very first reviews. These are almost always fake and unverified.

Possibly for new items in the mainstream.

However for the long-tail of niche items the plurality of my Amazon reviews were the first and often they remain the only, particularly for older or out-of-print books.

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Re:Amazon changes its review policy by CamelCaseName on Thursday December 14, 2017 @09:51PM (#15929342)
Books are a very different beast. What I'm talking about is PL goods where you'll take $item and make it $item by CamelCaseName.

Books on the other hand are probably sold by sellers who bought them used/returned/wholesale and are flipping them. They could care less about your product review because they almost always have only one or two copies.

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