RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Amazon.com customer review hassle

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

By the way, I consider myself an objective, dissinterested party.  Sales
of Slater's book have no effect on my income or those of my friends.  I
only care about her sales because I think her book is full of
misinformation and I don't like to see someone succeeding in nonfiction
sales by packing a bunch of "interesting" fiction into the book.

We've heard from Norton, the publisher, and they say it's a great book.
No worries about the misquotes (claimed by four interviewees) and
fabrications.  The definition of 'great' in the publishing industry is
simple: great book = profitable book.  They're making money, so they are
happy.  This same publisher has done even more heinous things in the past.
Check this stuff out:

http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/cgi-bin/webglimpse/bgnews?query=tierney&maxlines=0

A guy named Patrick Tierney made up some horrible lies about John Neel
(e.g., that he intentionally infected people with small pox), a great
medical geneticist, and published a book about them just a few months
after Neel had died and was no longer able to defend himself.  Almost no
one believes that Tierney is correct about Neel, and U Michigan did a big
investigation and showed that Tierney is highly inaccurate.  Still, Norton
published the book because they felt they could make some money.

Mike
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