From: Steve Whalen <swhalen@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Ada book help (on Amazon.com)
Date: 1999/01/28
Date: 1999-01-28T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <swhalenF69I5u.5Kr@netcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 78n30i$6v8$1@pollux.ip-plus.net
Stephane Barbey <Stephane@Paranor.ch> wrote:
[snip]
: >Out of curiosity, have you read the reviews of this book on Amazon.com?
: Thanks to pointing to those reviews: I had my dose of laugh for today when
: reading that a
: reviewer "from DC, USA" points out that:
[snip]
: ... so you should probably not take those critics too seriously.
: -Stephane
If I had read the reviews, I would have had the same reaction.
However,the way Amazon displays a book's 1st page of information, you
only get to see some colored stars that represent the "concensus" and
the number of reviews that make up the score/concensus. With one of
the lowest rating's I've seen for a book on Amazon and 5 reviews, I
didn't even bother to look at what the reviewers said.
I never got past the 1st screen of information on Amazon.com until I
read the positive comments here on comp.lang.ada.
I agree with those who've said that anyone who has read Barnes' book
and likes it, should add their review on Amazon.com. Then more people
will get past the first page. If the # of stars had been at least
"neutral", I would have gone on to read the reviews.
It's got to be hard enough to sell Ada95 books without this kind of
obstacle.
Steve
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-22 0:00 Ada book help Richard
1999-01-22 0:00 ` westonpa
1999-01-22 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-01-23 0:00 ` JoeLngstn
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Steve Whalen
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Steve Whalen
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Alexy Khrabrov
1999-01-25 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-01-26 0:00 ` Mordechai (Moti) Ben-Ari
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Alexy Khrabrov
1999-01-26 0:00 ` John Barnes' book reviews at Amazon (was Re: Ada book help) Pat Rogers
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-01-28 0:00 ` Roy Grimm
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Ada book help Stephane Barbey
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-01-28 0:00 ` Steve Whalen [this message]
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Magnus Kempe
1999-01-26 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Richard
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Jeff Iverson
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