A Casualty On The Battlefield Of Amazon's Partisan Book Reviews - NYTimes.com

When Amazon Reviewers Attack
View of the Amazon homepage taken in Washington on December 3, 2010. WikiLeaks, battling to remain online after sparking an international furor with its release of secret US cables, accused Amazon of cowardice for booting the website off its servers. The Seattle-based Amazon, meanwhile, broke days of silence and provided its first public explanation of its decision to withdraw its Web-hosting services from WikiLeaks.org. Amazon Web Services, in a statement, said it cut off WikiLeaks because it had violated the company's terms of service and not because of any government pressure. AFP PHOTO/Nicholas KAMM (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
View of the Amazon homepage taken in Washington on December 3, 2010. WikiLeaks, battling to remain online after sparking an international furor with its release of secret US cables, accused Amazon of cowardice for booting the website off its servers. The Seattle-based Amazon, meanwhile, broke days of silence and provided its first public explanation of its decision to withdraw its Web-hosting services from WikiLeaks.org. Amazon Web Services, in a statement, said it cut off WikiLeaks because it had violated the company's terms of service and not because of any government pressure. AFP PHOTO/Nicholas KAMM (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)

Reviews on Amazon are becoming attack weapons, intended to sink new books as soon as they are published.

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