Following Tuesday’s release of Hillary Clinton’s What Happened, publisher Simon & Schuster lamented to the AP that the Amazon product page was filled with customer “reviews” that were commentary on Mrs. Clinton rather than appraisals of her books. Publisher Jonathan Karp said, “It seems highly unlikely that approximately 1,500 people read Hillary Clinton’s book overnight and came to the stark conclusion that it is either brilliant or awful.” Meanwhile, on their own Amazon purged approximately 900 “reviews” of the book, saying they ‘violate our community guidelines,” as of early this morning displaying just under 600 reviews in all. But that book page […]
