Amazon Glitch Unmasks War of Reviewers

In reference to the post above, here is the text of the Amazon.com article from the New York Times:

Amazon Glitch Unmasks War of Reviewers

By Amy Harmon

Close observers of Amazon.com noticed something peculiar this week: the company’s Canadian site had suddenly revealed the identities of thousands of people who had anonymously posted book reviews on the United States site under signatures like “a reader from New York.”

The weeklong glitch, which Amazon fixed after outed reviewers complained, provided a rare glimpse at how writers and readers are wielding the online reviews as a tool to promote or pan a book

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