Not having grown up in the US means that English reviews really only crossed over to me when I got internet and found the first reader reviews on Amazon.de and then saw that there were review sites and blogs and communities - and then I simply tended to read those who reviewed what I liked reading, so I can't really weigh in on the meat of this post, I just wanted to add a link to a post at dearauthor.com that addressed their view on this topic (http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2010/08/31/will-we-ever-bring-democracy-to-book-reviewing/) (or what they saw in this whole fracas), just like I linked your points there (in case you hadn't seen them).
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Date: 2010-08-31 01:05 pm (UTC)