Amazon to ban anonymous reviewing

And our other favourite story this week comes from the Media Guardian website. They report that Amazon are stopping anonymous reviewing on their site - to add a review to books or CDs from now on you will have to have to be registered with the site, which means handing over your credit card info and therefore your full name. The reason for the change? It has become common practice in the publishing industry to anonymously go onto Amazon and write rave reviews for your own books, and slate those published by your competitors!