Comments on: Reviewing as a career isn’t really worth it http://dearauthor.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fdearauthor.com%2Fwordpress%2F2008%2F05%2F15%2Freviewing-as-a-career-isnt-really-worth-it%2F&seed_title=Reviewing+as+a+career+isn%26%238217%3Bt+really+worth+it Book reviews, industry news, and commentary from a reader's point of view Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:36:09 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Ann Somerville http://dearauthor.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fdearauthor.com%2Fwordpress%2F2008%2F05%2F15%2Freviewing-as-a-career-isnt-really-worth-it%2F&seed_title=Reviewing+as+a+career+isn%26%238217%3Bt+really+worth+it/comment-page-1/#comment-162591 Ann Somerville Fri, 16 May 2008 18:18:13 +0000 http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2008/05/15/reviewing-as-a-career-isnt-really-worth-it/#comment-162591 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. 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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