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May

11

2007

Giving book reviewers a bad name

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Tagged: ARC-Sales, fraud, scams
Filed under: Publishing News

Dutch man Peter Oosterbos, also known as Fred, has been scamming hundreds of books posing as a book reviewer for a fake magazine called Furore Magazine. Oosterbos has been running this scam for over 15 years and while most Dutch publishers are on to him, Oosterbos has reached out to British publishers like Penguin USA and Canongate. The export manager was a bit suspicious of this and called a customer in Holland for verification.

Via Media Bistro.

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Jane is a long time romance reader whose passion is, you guessed it, reading. She's currently loving contemporary authors like Sarah Mayberry and Kristan Higgins but her first love will always be the historical. Some of her old time favorites are Amanda Quick and Johanna Lindsey and some of the new favorites are Sherry Thomas, Joanna Bourne and Claudia Dain. Email this author | All posts by Jane

One comment to “Giving book reviewers a bad name”

1. 1	by A. Ellidge November 13th, 2007 at 9:40 am He does the same for CD’s. He faxes requests to musicians to get their record company to send review copies, after telling them he’s like to do an in depth interview. Reply