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Bitchery reader June forwarded me this email, a message to which I can only say, “Holy Shit.”

A friend of hers subscribes to a job offer listserv, and the following message came on by:

Write Online Book Reviews

We need 5 reviewers for 3 of our newly released titles. We ask that you write a 1-3 Paragraph review with a 5 star rating (5 being best) of each of the 3 books. We will then ask that you forward the reviews over to us so that we can look over them before you post them on Amazon.com and Barns and Noble.com.

Most of our reviewers are paid from $5- to $10 per review or $15.00 to $30.00 per 3 review book set. Unfortunately, Amazon has recently instituted a new procedure whereby you can only review books if you have an account that you have used to purchase books / products from them before, so in order to bid you must have an account with Amazon that you have used to purchased books with them from before. You are bidding on writing 5 reviews and posting them to Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com and lulu.com

Apply for this job here:

Write Reviews for Company Books

Now, we’ve had the discussion before that Amz. reviews at this point can and must be taken with a grain of large and salty suspicion, but jeez. $5 to $10 a review?! I have to wonder where the money is coming from for the reviewing, and how they choose the books what get the good reviews. 

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