Do me a favor? Review the book and not the price.

I went on Amazon today to check out the reviews for Richard Wolffe’s new book Renegade: The Making of a President. The first thing that caught my eye was the three star rating. That’s mediocre at best. I like Richard Wolffe. He seems like an intelligent, affable guy, and I was pretty certain this book would be above-average if not genuinely wonderful. So, three stars really threw me for a loop. Only three stars?

I clicked on the 1 star reviews to see why people didn’t like the book. There were ten 1 star reviews out of a total of twenty-two. Every single one of those 1 star reviews were complaints about the price of the book on Kindle rather than about the book itself.

Please, Kindle users, stop cheating the authors of these books as well as the potential readers. Richard Wolffe isn’t responsible for the price of the book on Kindle. If you want to complain, complain to Amazon. But you do a great disservice to writers and readers when you give a bogus review that is nothing more than griping, however legitimate, over the price.

I’ve decided to buy the book. Whether it sucks or it’s awesome, the decision is now left to me and not to those deceptive Kindlers.