And while much of this might seem like
nothing more than petty playground behavior between children who honestly do not have a clear good guy or bad guy, keep in mind that several ebook
retailers incorporate the Goodreads» API into their sales pages, effectively posting book reviews that many in the Goodreads community knew to be false, and
nothing more than an act of revenge
against an author; real - world sales decisions have been made by consumers based on these reviews.