Ever since the Guardian’s article about Anne Rice signing (which is the topic of our next post):

Protect Amazon.com Users and Indie Publishing Authors from Bullying and Harassment by Removing Anonymity and Requiring Identity Verification for Reviewing and Forum Participation

It appears as though Amazon is listening and has taken a few measures.  We’ve just received word from several authors that Amazon has been removing some obvious troll reviews from their books.  We were also tipped off to this on well known troll Debbie S.’s BookLikes blog:

AmazonRemovingReviews

And this from Edward L.’s BookLikes blog:

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We’re hoping this is an early sign that many more positive changes on Amazon are coming.  Let’s keep our fingers crossed!

In any case, one of the nastier trolls doesn’t seem too pleased and has vowed that she is quitting:

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And how do we feel about this?

YAY!

Nuff said.

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