This raises a voting issue that has been raised many times before. In the case of regular Q/A nodes people have complained that they would like to know how many -- votes a given node receives. While I don't think that it is necessary in the case of Q/A nodes, I think it is crucial when rating a Book.

I doubt that many books would end up with a negative rep, but it is important to see the number of total votes along with an approval percentage. This is slightly different than the way most booksellers rate them, but is probably all one really needs to know.

Consider two books with 100 rep each, but one with 90% approval compared to one with only 60%. That should certainly give anyone second thoughts about buying the latter book.

All things considered, an excellent idea.

--Jim

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