A new look for customer reviews on Amazon -- good or bad?

[denton270]

Gimme a break. While it's true Amazon's pages are getting more and more cluttered, does anyone really buy a book based on some (maybe) customer reviews? When I bring up a book on Amazon's site, it's 99% sure I'm already going to buy the book cuz I like the author, cuz I've read a review in a mainstream publication, or similar. I can't imagine doing a search for novels of Afghanistan and then buying 'Kite Runner' after sitting a few hours and reading random reviews by random people.

[yLoveBlues]

You used to be able to go to Amazon and "browse." Now there's so much clutter that you have to go there with the book you want already in mind, otherwise it's death by clutter. The reviews are so far down the page and so convuluted that you wonder whether the Amazon-techs have ever even heard the term "user friendly."

[LIDSoverSBW]

In the venacular, the new layout Sucks! This is Gawd Awful even by Amazon Techie's cavalier Pay-No-Attention-to-the-Users Standards.

Rise Up in righteous indignation!

Join the Boycott of Amazon - no purchases, no reviews from June 11-17.

/TundraVision, screwed Amazon Reviewer

PS: But, hey! DG! I *like* my tags ;-) See, e.g. my "enuf to P off the Pope" litany.

[dustywhite2]

I like what you had to say. I am amazed at all of the CRAP on the book detail pages of Amazon (baby registries? on EVERY page?) Whose insane idea was that? Why not have anniversary and Valentine's registries (yes - on EVERY page), especially on pages like Neil Straus' "The Game"?