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- Publisher
- SAGE
- Copyright
- © 2006 American Marketing Association
- ISSN
- 0022-2437
- eISSN
- 1547-7193
- DOI
- 10.1509/jmkr.43.3.345
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
The authors examine the effect of consumer reviews on relative sales of books at Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com. The authors find that (1) reviews are overwhelmingly positive at both sites, but there are more reviews and longer reviews at Amazon.com; (2) an improvement in a book's reviews leads to an increase in relative sales at that site; (3) for most samples in the study, the impact of one-star reviews is greater than the impact of five-star reviews; and (4) evidence from review-length data suggests that customers read review text rather than relying only on summary statistics.
Journal
Journal of Marketing Research – SAGE
Published: Aug 1, 2006