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Literary Hub’s “Book Marks” Wants to be the Next “Rotten Tomatoes” of Book Reviews

7 June, 20161 September, 2016Aggregators, Book Culture, Reviews3 Comments

Literary Hub announced on Tuesday that it’s launching a book review aggregation service called Book Marks. It’s more or less Rotten Tomatoes clone, only for books. Book...

Fakespot Responds to Complaints Over Book Review Ratings, Promises Changes

31 January, 201615 November, 2019Reviews, Self-Pub13 Comments

If there’s one thing we’ve learned in the week since I first reported on Fakespot’s system for analyzing Amazon reviews, it’s that Fakespot‘s algorithms completely miffed on book reviews. Numerous...

Okada Books is an Indie African eBookstore

11 April, 20151 September, 2016eBookstore, Reviews11 Comments

The indie author movement is so loud and boisterous in the Western world that it often drowns out similar efforts elsewhere in the globe. In Africa,...

Amazon Refines Customer Review Process With New Ratings Options

23 March, 201512 May, 2017Amazon, Reviews26 Comments

It’s always been easy to post a review on Amazon; simply jot down a few sentences, select a star rating, and you’re done. It’s so easy...

Kobo is Listing eBook Formats Again, Also Has Another Go at Posting Book Reviews

10 December, 201411 May, 2017eBookstore, Kobo, Reviews6 Comments

Over the past few weeks Kobo updated its website with a couple new features which readers will appreciate. The retailer is now once again showing the...

How Not to Respond to Negative Reviews: The Kathleen Hale Edition

18 October, 20141 September, 2016Publishing, Reviews91 Comments

Do you want to hear some absolutely crazy shit? (This cannot be described in lesser terms, sorry.) There’s a story that is burning up twitter today....

How Not to Respond to Negative Reviews: The Anne Rice Edition

29 April, 201310 May, 2017Reviews31 Comments

I don’t mention book reviews much on this blog but a particular review caught my attention today. The review itself was a good read, but the...

The Silent History is So Innovative That it Uses Century-Old Ideas

7 October, 201216 November, 2019Reviews4 Comments

There’s a new ebook app in iTunes this week which as been getting a lot of attention this past few weeks. The Silent History is an...

Book Review: Bottom of the Ninth

23 September, 20121 September, 2016Comics & Digital Comics, Reviews2 Comments

Earlier this year I came across a new attempt to add moving images to digital comics. The book is called Bottom of the Ninth, and while...

Book Review: 56 Broken Kindle Screens

21 September, 20121 September, 2016Reviews3 Comments

A couple weeks ago I posted on a new art book called 56 Broken Kindle Screens. This book attempted to separate the the artistic value of...