Amazon.com provides sales statistics and reader reviews of the books it sells. But so much information isn’t necessarily a good thing for authors. “On a bad day, you’ll invariably find that none of Amazon’s customers has bothered to review your book since the last time you looked, and that, furthermore, the masterpiece over which you sweated blood for 18 months is languishing in 3,000,012th place in the Amazon sales charts. On an even worse one, you’ll discover that some tasteless imbecile who wouldn’t know what great art was if it bit him on the nose has given you a real stinker, and that your book has dropped to 3,000,013.” – The Telegraph (UK)