Comments on: Checking the Reputation Capital Account http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2006/08/10/checking-the-reputation-capital-account/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:26:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: joeo http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2006/08/10/checking-the-reputation-capital-account/comment-page-1/#comment-1778 joeo Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:48:02 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=247#comment-1778 Amazon book reviews are a good way to influence people's buying decisions. Especially for acedemic books that don't have too many other reviews. The amazon page is usually a book's top hit on google. It would be helpful for non-specialists if academics would review more books on Amazon. Even if you know nothing about a field, the amazon reviews can tell you whether to buy <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1558606556/ref=sr_11_1/103-5710011-4588654?ie=UTF8" rel="nofollow">this book </a> or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471215716/ref=pd_sim_b_3/103-5710011-4588654?ie=UTF8" rel="nofollow"> that book</a>. Amazon book reviews are a good way to influence people’s buying decisions. Especially for acedemic books that don’t have too many other reviews. The amazon page is usually a book’s top hit on google. It would be helpful for non-specialists if academics would review more books on Amazon.

Even if you know nothing about a field, the amazon reviews can tell you whether to buy this book or that book.

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