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Default Fake reviews on Amazon?

Ignoramus11638 wrote:
I am looking at this book:

http://www.amazon.com/You-Can-Never-...82617&sr= 8-1

While I have not read it, it does not seem like it could be a
groundbreaking book in any respects, and most likely is complete crap
that is written to sell more services provided by this guy (and this
guess can be completely wrong and maybe this is a new discovery on how
dummies can get wealthy).

My question is, how likely is this book to have such a good review
rating that would be genuine?


The Atlantic magazine had a small article a couple
of years ago about false positive book reviews.
The essence of the article is that there are a small
number of writers and reviewers and they most definitely
give positive reviews to marginal books and authors.