On 2009-03-18, wrote:
http://www.amazon.com/You-Can-Never-Too-Rich/

No, probably not fake. Amazon would feel the heat if these were not
real. However, I suspect they were bought and paid for by the
publisher or the author.

This is exactly what I suspect.

I say that based on an experience a company producing bank software
that I worked for in the 1980's. A well known publisher of reviews of
bank related software raved about various software packages, but never
mentioned our company. The President called to find out if the author
had reviewed our software. The answer was "No, but I will for
$10,000.". We didn't pay, and never got written up in the publication.

So, I suspect a majority of book reviews are purchased in one way or
another.

Maybe not the majority, but it does seem fishy in this case. I mean,
come on, the book is obviously garbage.

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