Article by Dartmouth Professor on Amazon.com reviews
Here is a recent article on a study of Amazon.com reviews by Dartmouth professor Mikhail Gronas. The article describes the reasons why Professor Gronas is studying Amazon.com reviews--he thinks they provide interesting insights into how taste is formed (at least I think that's the general idea)--and provides some of his preliminary findings.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/01/050110112001.htm
posted by Lisa Ede @ 4:07 PM
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Lisa: I couldn’t the grasp man’s point. I don’t go to Amazon for book reviews. I get my book reviews from struggling print periodicals such as The Sewanee Review or more successful ones such as The London Review of Books. I don’t want to spend my time providing free material to Jeff Bezos.
I found this part interesting, “…blog-like quality to them with short sentences, quick exclamations as well as slang.” Interesting characterization of blogs. But isn’t the point of blogs that they can be anything, even prolix?
Hope
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