From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e486c4cecbbc6a4a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Steve Whalen Subject: Re: Ada book help (on Amazon.com) Date: 1999/01/28 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 437866848 Sender: swhalen@netcom.netcom.com References: <36A8FC33.3B4BA48A@virgin.net> <78n30i$6v8$1@pollux.ip-plus.net> Organization: ? Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-01-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Stephane Barbey 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 -- {===--------------------------------------------------------------===} Steve Whalen swhalen@netcom.com {===--------------------------------------------------------------===}