AMAZON & THE TRUTHFULNESS of THE AMATEUR

When The Black Swan came out, the first NYT reviewer Gregg Easterbrook, a professional journalist was clueless and had not read the book nor did he understand much of it… Same with other reviews by academics who skimmed the book and found some angle that links it to what research tradition they knew worse, academics tend to be envious of other writers as I can predict a review from the name of its author … Professionals cut corners and work from secondary sources or within agendas and scan books for familiarity with prevailing concepts; so it took a while for the real ideas of TBS to percolate. Because of the journalistic distortions people believed my book was about forecasting Black Swans, etc., not about epistemic opacity and perceptional distortions etc.This time, 5 3/4 years later Amazon sent the galleys of the new book to members of the VINE program for trusted and genuine readers who review books for free. They can get things wrong, but the crowdsourcing works, supplying both DEPTH and VARIATIONS of opinions, provided such advanced reviewing is limited to those who are deemed reliable by their ratings.
And the author can respond on premises.
This insulates us authors from corrupt & paid laborers: academics & journalists.

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