At what point do reviews become sales pitches for the educational industrial complex? Since you often base your buy/don't buy on reviews, this is relevant.
Unintentionally or not, Choice may be the most tempting example through its wielding of cards. It is much more convenient to send your faculty cards rather than review magazines, and much easier for them to send back cards with instructions to buy an item. I know of no other review journal that uses cards.
I suspect that books that are not reviewed by Choice (the cruelest cut), or not reviewed favorably, have a lesser chance of being purchased by an academic library.
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