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Authors hit by bad reviews on Goodreads before review copies are even circulated

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97 points healsdata | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 11:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.366s | source
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saintblasphemer ◴[25 Jun 25 12:27 UTC] No.44376493[source]▶
Why is the book available for review on the site if review copies haven't yet been sent out? Isn't that just asking for trolling?
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1. patcon ◴[25 Jun 25 12:56 UTC] No.44376768[source]▶
In some ways, it's just a peak into existing corruption, perpetrated by those who couldn't even be bothered to make it believable.

Likely a script that looks for the first x reviews and then starts generating fake ones, and some party that is just lazy. There's probably a market somewhere to short.