{"id":184812,"date":"2010-01-15T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T21:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100115\/1209077775.shtml"},"modified":"2010-01-15T16:52:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T21:52:00","slug":"kindle-fans-punish-publisher-for-delaying-ebook-releases-by-giving-books-one-star-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/184812","title":{"rendered":"Kindle Fans Punish Publisher For Delaying Ebook Releases By Giving Books One-Star Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month we pointed out what a bad idea it was for book publishers to go against the market&#8217;s wishes and to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20091210\/0529527289.shtml\">delay the release<\/a> of certain ebooks, hoping to drive more people to the (higher margin) hardcover versions of the book.  This is incredibly anti-consumer thinking and assumes, incorrectly, that people will happily accept the format the publisher gives them.  Not surprisingly, consumers are starting to rebel.  Apparently some of the books are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techflash.com\/seattle\/2010\/01\/kindle_punish_book_on_amazon_that_delayed_digital_edition.html\" >getting hit with one-star reviews on Amazon<\/a> as punishment.  For example, HarperCollins &#8212; one of the leading supporters of these silly &#8220;windowed&#8221; releases &#8212; is discovering that its well-hyped book <i>Game Change<\/i> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Game-Change-Clintons-McCain-Lifetime\/product-reviews\/0061733636\/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&#038;showViewpoints=1\" >filling up with one-star reviews<\/a>.  Going against what your consumers want is almost never a good idea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100115\/1209077775.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100115\/1209077775.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20100115\/1209077775&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=15fa44c0b2571560d8d152bac86a503e&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=15fa44c0b2571560d8d152bac86a503e&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=7Fk3uc1TMnY:5m9zvvUhFDU:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=7Fk3uc1TMnY:5m9zvvUhFDU:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=7Fk3uc1TMnY:5m9zvvUhFDU:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/7Fk3uc1TMnY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month we pointed out what a bad idea it was for book publishers to go against the market&#8217;s wishes and to delay the release of certain ebooks, hoping to drive more people to the (higher margin) hardcover versions of the book. This is incredibly anti-consumer thinking and assumes, incorrectly, that people will happily accept [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}