Comments on: Book Reviews Plagiarized on Amazon

By: Amos Lassen Falls From Grace, When Reviewers Attack

Amos Lassen Falls From Grace, When Reviewers Attack — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:04:03 +0000

[...] Amazon forums, I saw a thread titled â€œPlagiarism in a review?â€ This caught my attention because I, too, had been plagiarised by an Amazon reviewer. But before I could chip my two cents in, I was swept up on the roller coaster ride of reviewer [...]

By: SavvyVerse&Wit

SavvyVerse&Wit — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:50:06 +0000

I'm going to have to check Amazon.com now! UGh .-= SavvyVerse&WitÂ´s last blog ..Chow Hounds by Ernie Ward, DVM =-.

By: Ladybug

Ladybug — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:53:04 +0000

Some people have no shame! Great to hear that Amazon did the right thing. I don’t think that this would happen to me – I don’t think anybody would want to steal my bad English grammar. I probably mix it with the Norwegian grammar rules sometimes. But then again maybe the people doing this are so bad writers that they steal anything..
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By: Book Reviews

Book Reviews — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:59:00 +0000

This is a shame that this keeps happening to writers all over the internet. But I’m glad the review was removed. At least Amazon did the right thing.

By: Ann-Kat

Ann-Kat — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:54:55 +0000

Update: Amazon is awesome. I don’t know whether the reviewer was kicked out of Vine or not, but the review was removed.

By: Ann-Kat

Ann-Kat — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:23:16 +0000

Thanks Amanda. I’m crossing my fingers and hoping Amazon does something about it.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:42:25 +0000

Wow. That's horrible. I hope you get it all taken care of! .-= AmandaÂ´s last blog ..In a Perfect World, by Laura Kasischke =-.

By: Ann-Kat

Ann-Kat — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:03:01 +0000

Lenore, you’re probably right.

Margaret, here’s a direct link to their review* (and the person who emailed me was even kind enough to comment regarding the “source” of most of the review).

It’s a relatively short review, but it still stings when nearly half of their review was copy/pasted from my own review of of the book*. In the first paragraph, the summary, they only modified a few words of my synopsis and for the final two paragraphs, they lifted entire sentences and only tacked on a few words of their own.

I still haven’t heard back from Amazon, so I’m going to send another follow up email.

* Removed links since the review has been removed from Amazon and don’t want anyone to click on a broken link.

By: margaret

margaret — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:55:47 +0000

Holly Smokes!! I’m shocked. I’ve never thought too look and see if people are plagiarizing me – I doubt it though – my reviews are always so scatter brained

I hope they take the review down and ban the person, or at least revoke the title. I’m sorry Ann-Kat. What was the book?

By: Lenore

Lenore — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:44:50 +0000

Wow! The gall of some people. I think that reviewer should be dropped from the program too. Sounds like he/she didn't even read it and just wanted to post a review fast to get more "free stuff". .-= LenoreÂ´s last blog ..Library Thing Tuesday (76) + Picture of Emmy =-.