There should be way to "award" a zero star rating.

I'm an Amazon "merchant partner," and my company has had a love/hate relationship with them for many years (we started selling watches on the site just as they were creating the "watch and jewelry" category). While they have created a truly awesome mechanism for making money through retail on the Internet, they are clearly in it for themselves. Not only do merchants pay them a commission off the top of the sales price, the same commission is applied to shipping charges. It's very easy for Amazon to make more on a sale than we do, particularly for high dollar items with slim margins. Despite that, the sales volume possible through Amazon is too big to pass up. In-addition, Amazon tracks a number of metrics to keep merchants performing at an acceptable level and they can, and will shut you down with a mouse-click if you drop below what they feel is acceptable. These metrics have to do with your response time both in fulfilling orders and responding to customer inquiries and dealing with customer issues. That makes sense, but they also track your sales metrics. They know what sells and they use that against you by acquiring your product lines. Once Amazon gets a hold of an item, they become the exclusive seller of that item. It is impossible to compete with Amazon in their sandbox. Another metric that can get you shut down is negative feedback. This is not the same as product reviews which is what the topic of this thread is and I apologize for deviating somewhat from the main topic, but if you have a certain number of negative (3 or fewer stars) feedbacks, you have a limited amount of time to bring that back up. Amazon is tough on its merchants. Too tough, IMHO, and it saddens me that a company that has created such great value for people (both consumers and merchants) plays the political power game when they could be a beacon for truth instead. Again, sorry for deviating somewhat.

Nothing new there. Amazon won't remove negative rankings of novels from people who admit to never having read the books.
This is all about money and influence. HC has them both and Amazon covets it.

Welcome to dino's book review corner~
Oh, my goody goodness. Who wouldn't like a ghost-written book about a cackling Evil Hag who can't look in the mirror due to casting no reflection?
That's why book is a modern abstract art masterpiece. What's abstract and what's the art?
Me dino just told ya. It's all between the lines that crooked Shillary is incapable of looking at herself in a mirror. Her darling Billy must have bit her after too many rapes or something.
Yeah, so you don't have to read the book to appreciate its aesthetic wonderment. That's because What Happened is not in the book to be read.
And don't worry about bungle in the jungle people of the Amazon who kiss up with blowguns. Monkey hunters are what they eat.

I usually don't buy new books; if they are hardbacks, they are usually too expensive, and it is generally some time before they come out in paper-
back (and, I hear, the new fashion is something called "softcover", which, I understand, is more expensive than paperback.)

And, as to a book by Hillary Clinton, I usually wouldn't read it if someone offered to pay me for reading it instead of my paying him (or her.)

Too bad you couldn't mark it down to a negative 5stars!

Its a shame that Jeff Bezos and Amazon are such slimy organizations! Cooking the books trying make the "lamebrain" Hillary Clinton look good. Her book of lies will command nothing but 1 star reviews if the people reviewing have any integrity at all.

Do I actually read this in the article:

" We do however have mechanisms in place to ensure that the voices of many do not drown out the voices of a few and we remove customer reviews that violate our community guidelines."

Admitting the "many" rate the book negatively???

There is some justification of Amazon deleting 1-star reviews from their site. First, all these "reviews", including some of the 5-star, were posted by people who could not have possibly read it because they were posted before the book was even released. I've heard of speed-reading but time travel was never a requirement. Secondly, what they claimed to be deleting were posts from people who were not verified purchasers of the book. If those were only 1-star reviews then I'd suggest some manipulation might be involved. I don't think it's a big deal, myself, because I would never read the book, much less buy it given what I know of Clinton's escapades in the past, Anyone swayed by a book review from random people doesn't have much in the way of intellectual curiosity or capacity. If a friend I trust gives me a review, I would give it far more consideration.

Hillary is just trying to get attention so she can run for political power again. Her lack of appeal as a politician has been shown TWICE already by dark horses that came out of nowhere to beat her at the last minute no matter what political tricks she pulled. I say that people just dont LIKE her, they see the nastiness that resides inside her, and they feel her power hungry nature.

In the quiet of the voting booth, these things come out as the opposing candidates are selected by the voter. She is one evil bit&*, and she cant hide it. Hows that for political correctness.

A cursory review shows a whopping 93% five-star rating for Hillary Cretin’s book.
Quote from Amazon reviewer (Kelley): “...Hillary continues to occupy rent-free space in so many people's heads."

The "one stars" were really entertaining.....

Forget Hillary's book. I think your post is hilarious!

did the leave the 0 star reviews?