Huh.
A week or two ago, I came across a copy of Spinning in the Old Way in a local bookshop (I don't know how or why it was there so far in advance of the official release date, but I had the book in my hands). I noticed that a lot of it, possibly *all* of it, is a re-worked version of the author's earlier book, High Whorling, which I think is an excellent book. However, if I'd bought this hoping for a new book and found out how much it duplicated the other one (and there was no information anywhere I could find suggesting it WAS the same book, but some passages were verbatim and the drawings were clearly the same), I'd be pretty ticked off. Like how I was ticked off when I bought Melanie Falick's America Knits only to learn after it arrived that it was a reprint of Knitting in America with new cover and title. So I took it upon myself to write a review on Amazon, warning owners of the old book, but telling people if they didn't have the old book, they really ought to buy the new one, because it's a good reference.
I saw the review go onto the page. And yet now, no review, but they have kept my 4-star rating. If the publisher had it removed, that is terribly uncool and I'm pretty disappointed in them. Maybe Amazon pulled it thinking "nobody could have seen this book yet." Either way, I'm sort of irked, but I guess potential pissed-off customers is PGR's problem, not mine...
I saw the review go onto the page. And yet now, no review, but they have kept my 4-star rating. If the publisher had it removed, that is terribly uncool and I'm pretty disappointed in them. Maybe Amazon pulled it thinking "nobody could have seen this book yet." Either way, I'm sort of irked, but I guess potential pissed-off customers is PGR's problem, not mine...