librarian.net » nonsense http://www.librarian.net putting the rarin back in librarian since 1999 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:37:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 dear Elsevier, stop digging, you are embarassing us http://www.librarian.net/stax/2902/dear-elsevier-stop-digging-you-are-embarassing-us/ http://www.librarian.net/stax/2902/dear-elsevier-stop-digging-you-are-embarassing-us/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:52:25 +0000 jessamyn http://www.librarian.net/?p=2902 “Elsevier officials said Monday that it was a mistake for the publishing giant’s marketing division to offer $25 Amazon gift cards to anyone who would give a new textbook five stars in a review posted on Amazon or Barnes & Noble. While those popular Web sites’ customer reviews have long been known to be something less than scientific, and prone to manipulation if an author has friends write on behalf of a new work, the idea that a major academic publisher would attempt to pay for good reviews angered some professors who received the e-mail pitch.”

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