• TechCrunch, Tuesday, March 23, 2010 3:32 PM

In this TechCrunch rant, Paul Carr tackles two equally pressing ecommerce issues at once: 1) Publishers' policy of delaying Kindle releases to protect hardback sales: "It's an idiotic move but it's one that many publishers feel forced into due to Amazon's policy of charging $9.99 for most popular Kindle titles," he writes.

And 2), Amazon's policy of letting anyone review a book. "Amazon needs to -- immediately -- change its review policy so that only people who have actually bought a book are allowed to review it," argues Carr. "It's hard, in fact, to think of a downside to restricting reviews to actual purchasers of a particular title."

Until now, Amazon has been able to ignore such complaints, but Apple's entrance into the market could make the bookseller more responsive.

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