Journal

Saturday, August 25, 2001

AMERICAN GODS BLOG, POST 165

Not only has the Andrew Lloyd-Webber Amazon page vanished, but they've removed all the reviews from the system.

Poor old Amazon. I miss the days when you could write something in the "I am the author and I want to talk about my book" section. I was told that it had vanished following complaints from A Fantasy Author after someone impersonated him.

Now, I sent them a grumpy e-mail after an "I am the author" thing cropped up on the Good Omens site which said something along the lines of

I wrote this book with Terry Pratchett it was very funy we laughed a lot I hope it will be a film soon well thank you fans I will write another book one day Neil Gaimen

asking them to take it down, which they did. But I didn't demand they scrapped the whole thing because it was open to abuse, because it was too cool and sensible and useful a tool for that. Unfortunately one day someone with no sense of proportion did.

I'd love to put up an "I am the author" note for Amazon.com's entry for a book by me they list as coming out next year called Cordelia which explains that I've never heard of this book before, and are they sure they don't mean Coraline?

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The suggestions for things to do with the site are being sent over to Harper Collins... thanks everyone for your patience and your ideas.