Winter's Desire


May
15
2008
Reviewing as a career isn’t really worth it

We review here for free, but it’s not much different if you review for a trade magazine like Publishers Weekly. With traditional media hurting financially, PW has responded one way by reducing the amount of money that reviewers will be paid for each review to $25.00. Obviously reviewing is done by those who love reading and not for any monetary reward. (at least that is what I infer from this).

Via MediaBistro.

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JaneJane 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
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One comment to “Reviewing as a career isn’t really worth it”

  1. 1 by Ann Somerville May 16th, 2008 at 1:18 pm

    You know, reviews done for free are surely more trustworthy. If you’re being paid, you feel duty bound to make the review entertaining, not just informative. The temptation to wank and snark just to get reader attention would be great. The potential for bribery is there too.

    But if you’re going to pay for reviews, then it should be a standard journalistic rate. A pittance is just an insult but I guess it is done to claim some copyright over the words.

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