Monday, July 13, 2009

The 500lb Gorilla

This is just the sort of thing that makes a person incredibly proud to work for their company. If a disgruntled employee did do this, I'm not surprised.

http://consumerist.com/5313215/academic-publisher-pays-professors-for-shill-amazon-reviews

2 comments:

cheryl said...

Yeah, then there's the whole fake journal thing...
http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/55671/

Unknown said...

i remember when that came out... gah! they wonder why we have a bad rep. we did a big promotion last year for mla and the backlash was pretty loud. quite a bit of packaging and waste involved with game pieces. people returned the whole package to the booth unopened.