I really like the idea of author blogs on Amazon, but I don’t like that comments and trackbacks are disabled. No comments allowed, I understand, but trackbacks are important for “hooking” one blog to another. If the point is to generate discussion throughout the blogosphere and make authors and bloggers aware of each other, blogs with no trackbacks are not conducive to the goals. If the point is to simply allow authors to respond to negative reviews posted on Amazon, the current set up works.
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December 30th, 2005 at 11:46 am
Trackbacks might as well be blocked if comments are blocked. Trackbacks provide as much or more benefit to the non-author blogger in the process. As you know blocking the trackback does not prevent others from linking to the Amazon author blogs. There logic may be to keep better bloggers/writers from stealing the thunder of the author that is blogging on their site. Amazon might also have decided to avoid the headache of trying to figuring out how the comments and trackbacks would be moderated and by whom.