{"id":93,"date":"2006-08-28T23:20:29","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T04:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2006-09-10T19:03:28","modified_gmt":"2006-09-11T00:03:28","slug":"the-importance-of-amazon-book-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/2006\/08\/28\/the-importance-of-amazon-book-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Amazon Book Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few days ago I indulged myself by googling to see how many reviews of The Pagan Man<\/i> had been posted online. I was astounded that over 1,000 had been posted, but a hour of checking the links quickly made two things clear: One, that a single Pagan author had posted a review at a dozen different sites — thanks, Mike! — and two, every other review appeared to be a reposting of one or more of the Amazon.com reviews.<\/p>\n

I checked out the situation with some of my other titles:<\/p>\n

* Real Magic:<\/i> 1300+
\n* Rites of Worship:<\/i> 400+
\n* Witchcraft: A Concise Guide:<\/i> 150+
\n* Bonewits\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Essential Guide to Witchcraft and Wicca:<\/i> 150+<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In each case, there are a handful of independent book reviews overwhelmed by multiple repostings of the Amazon.com reviews.<\/p>\n

When people post reviews of my books at Amazon.com, those reviews appear in a thousand other places. Amazon seems to have completely replaced, at least online, the tree-based media as far as the importance of their reviews are concerned.<\/p>\n

So, if you’ve read one or more of my books and enjoyed them, please<\/i> go to each book’s page at Amazon.com (and barnesandnoble.com) and post a review. If you have a Pagan website that you frequent, post your review(s) there too. If you hated my stuff, as I also always say, “nevermind.”<\/p>\n

[Addition 09\/10\/06: Lately there have been a few really lame<\/i> reviews of my books posted by people who obviously don’t understand that I first wrote Real Magic<\/i> over thirty years ago and last updated it in 1989. Seems I write like an “old hippy” or something … of course, I was a young hippy at the time! And someone who fantasizes about enslaving women hates The Pagan Man,<\/i> and just etc. So those of you who belong to Dumbledore’s Army, er, I mean Isaac’s Iconoclasts, might want to weigh in over at Amazon.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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