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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: 0.21s | source
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rurban ◴[25 Jun 25 12:06 UTC] No.44376325[source]▶
Frequent experience with movies also. letterboxd is rife with ratings on movies, which didn't pre-screen at all yet. Most of them by paid shills. A24 being the worst, but Warner also amongst them. And lb fails to hit them.

Same on IMDB, and even Rotten Tomatoes. There's a lot of money in movies. But books?

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1. snarf21 ◴[25 Jun 25 13:11 UTC] No.44376926[source]▶
The same exact thing happens on BoardGameGeek for board games. A game is announced and people rate it 1 out of 10 because they hate the theme or the it has a digital app to help you play or ..... The game isn't released and no one has a copy besides the publisher.