Bookseller Amazon Building on Review Function
Research into Online Book Reviews
Amazon.com offers pages of information on the book titles it sells online, including reviews. And now the reviewers are being reviewed, as customers are invited to rate a review's "helpfulness."
Martha Woodroof reports for member station WMRA.
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