EVERYONE'S A CYBERCRITIC BUT ARE READERS' ONLINE BOOK REVIEWS A BLESSING OR DOT.CON?(Lifestyle)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: January 27, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Some judge of authors' names, not works and then/

Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

- Alexander Pope

``An Essay on Criticism,'' 1711

Literary assassinations. Anonymous rave-ups. Online stalkers. Cyber-hustlers. Can this be the stuff of 21st-century book reviewing?

It's a question buzzing through the world of contemporary books, as many publishing insiders cast an uneasy eye at loosely regulated, increasingly influential customer review forums provided by online booksellers such as Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com.

Suddenly everyone's a ...

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