{"id":72,"date":"2012-08-27T23:07:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T04:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writedrunkandeditsober.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/28\/paying-for-online-book-reviews-is-it-wrong\/"},"modified":"2012-08-27T23:07:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T04:07:07","slug":"paying-for-online-book-reviews-is-it-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/artofblogging\/2012\/08\/paying-for-online-book-reviews-is-it-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Paying for Online Book Reviews | Is It Wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"reblog-post\">\n<p class=\"reblog-from\"><img alt='' src='http:\/\/0.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3b6b63a6169e765d860a5705c2d0898c?s=25&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=G' class='avatar avatar-25' height='25' width='25' \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/petergalenmassey.com\/2012\/08\/27\/paying-for-online-book-reviews-is-it-wrong\/\">Reblogged from Peter Galen Massey&#039;s Book Blog:<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wpcom-enhanced-excerpt\">\n<div class=\"wpcom-enhanced-excerpt-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/petergalenmassey.com\/2012\/08\/27\/paying-for-online-book-reviews-is-it-wrong\/\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/petergalenmassey.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/reviews.png?w=584&#038;h=123\" alt=\"Click to visit the original post\" class=\"size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Sunday\u2019s <a title=\"Read the article in the NYT\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/26\/business\/book-reviewers-for-hire-meet-a-demand-for-online-raves.html?pagewanted=all\">New York Times Business section<\/a>, David Streitfeld reports on self-published authors paying for reviews of their books on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>The article focuses on Todd Rutherford and his now-defunct company, GettingBookReviews.com, which offered authors 20 online reviews for $499 and 50 online reviews for $999.<\/p>\n<p>Rutherford said that freelance writers he hired could decline to review a book they didn\u2019t like, and still receive half their fee, but this rarely happened according to&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/petergalenmassey.com\/2012\/08\/27\/paying-for-online-book-reviews-is-it-wrong\/\" ><span>Read more&hellip;<\/span> 499 more words<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reblogged from Peter Galen Massey&#039;s Book Blog: In Sunday\u2019s New York Times Business section, David Streitfeld reports on self-published authors paying for reviews of their books on the internet. The article focuses on Todd Rutherford and his now-defunct company, GettingBookReviews.com, &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/writedrunkandeditsober.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/28\/paying-for-online-book-reviews-is-it-wrong\/\">Continue reading <span>&#8594;<\/span><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=writedrunkandeditsober.wordpress.com&amp;blog=37194364&amp;post=549&amp;subd=writedrunkandeditsober&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/artofblogging\/2012\/08\/paying-for-online-book-reviews-is-it-wrong\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":951,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/artofblogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/artofblogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/artofblogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/artofblogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/951"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/artofblogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/artofblogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/artofblogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/artofblogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/artofblogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}