Trevor Pinch, « Book Reviewing for Amazon.com. How Socio-technical Systems Struggle to Make Less from More », in Barbara Czarniawska and Orvar Löfgren, Managing Overflow in Affluent Societies, New York, Routledge, 2012, p. 79.

« Reader reviews also started to affect how publishers released books. J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, before becoming the international bestsellers whose publication date was coordinated all over the world, were always published first in the UK. When the second book in the series, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, came out in the UK months before it appeared in the US, more than eighty rave reviews appeared at the US Amazon site, including instructions on how to order the UK version with delivery in less than eight days. »