If you missed it, and I nearly did, Amazon has added (or is in the process of adding) ratings on products as well as reviews.

I noticed this just yesterday when looking at my books on line. This is what I saw:

I was immediately curious as to what the 39 meant. I had never seen that before. Then I saw this:

Ninety-nine. OK. Time to do some investigating. Amazon says that they are beta testing user ratings. Available now only on some products. What’s interesting in my case is that the ratings show up for my novels only on the paperback page – not on the Kindle page. So Beauty Rising has 99 ratings, and if I click on the stars it does indeed list the break-down for the 99 and not just the 86 reviews.

It will be interesting to see how this goes and how it will…