- Marsh Towers is a very nice site which impressively delivers its 100th chess books review.
- I have no idea how many chess books reviews the British Chess Magazine can boast but I guess they top the list. The July Stonewall review is by the editor, John Saunders.
There are also some comments that come quite close to a review at Thomas Johansson's chess book page (this page opens an ad and at least one pop-up). I will return to this as it raises some questions that deserve to be answered.
I will also eventually have a look at some of the questions raised in this thread at Chess Publishing discussion forum.
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Win-Stonewall-Dutch-Sverre-Johnsen/dp/1906454078
Thanks!
I noticed the Amazon review too. Maybe I will write a blog entry on Amazon reviews one of the next days.
(not the same anon)
Isn't it standard nowadays that the publisher / manufacturer makes sure an "independent" positive review is posted shortly after release? ;)
Just a general observation, not directly related to your book.
I liked the London book, good luck with the new one.
Dear Another Anonymous,
To some extent I think you are right.
Some publishers/ manufacturers/ authors seem to fall for this temptation. I could point to one fairly recent chess book with some very suspicious 'reviews' on Amazon.com. There are some very good indications that most are written by the same person but it would be impossible to prove anything, so I will stop here.
This suspicion is one reason why I have not referred to these Amazon 'reviews' anywhere. That doesn't exclude the possibility that some of them can provide useful feed-back and there is little doubt that they to some extent influence the sales so I check them occasionally.
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