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While Amazon has millions of products with countless positive reviews, not every item is worth your hard-earned cash. Unfortunately, many consumers have fallen victim to bad products on Amazon,...
On November 10, 2010, a controversy arose about the marketing by Amazon of an e-book by Phillip R. Greaves entitled The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-lover's Code of Conduct. [103] Readers threatened to boycott Amazon for selling the book, which was described by critics as a "pedophile guide".
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 March 2025. For satirical news, see List of satirical news websites. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Fake news websites are those which intentionally, but not necessarily solely ...
One of the first appearances of the term "review bomb" was in a 2008 Ars Technica article by Ben Kuchera describing the effect in regards to Spore, in which users left negative reviews on Amazon citing the game's perceived lackluster gameplay and digital rights management system. Kuchera wrote "Review-bombing Amazon is a particularly nasty way ...
Part of the issue customers reported was the email appeared to be for those who bought gift cards — but those who didn't still received the email.
According to the Benedict Evans retail data analysis blog, as of 2019 Amazon had 50% or more of the U.S.print book market and “at least three quarters” of publishers’ ebook sales.
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
[73] [74] Amazon.com does not allow reviews to be posted for most books that have not yet been released, and Amazon book reviews indicate whether the user leaving the review purchased the book. [73] By contrast, any registered user on Goodreads (which Amazon purchased for $150 million in 2013) may rate or review a book, even before publication ...
