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“…the “Write a Review” button is halfway down the page, and you must provide a title and description for your review…”

Yes I guess my definition of ‘ordeal’ and hoop jumping is a little different.

And yes, I realize that doesn’t invalidate the Amazon to GoodReads comparison, but still.

‘Inconvenience’ would be more accurate word to differentiate the two.

On Amazon, there are far more reviewers for the books that received the really low scores. This suggests that the really low scores are actually a result of frustrated readers motivated to express their concerns, rather than a reflection of relative enjoyability or quality per-se.

GoodReads makes it extremely easy to submit a rating for a book — one click is all it takes. Amazon seems almost to discourage reviews — the “Write a Review” button is halfway down the page, and you must provide a title and description for your review. The net result being that input of everyday browsing users won’t be captured on Amazon — only motivated reviewers (such as the frustrated reader) will be bothered to jump through all the hoops.

What? Why?

You select the number of stars, enter 20+ characters for your review and hit publish.

I don’t do facebook, twitter or any of the other ‘social media’, but even I’ve left a few reviews on amazon.