I must admit that I’m quite swayed by the book reviews on Amazon, so I was a little shocked to see this job posted on the Freelance Work Exchange.
Write Online Book Reviews
Description of project:
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 Long term work Ken.
Skill requirements:
Must have an amazon.com account and know how to write english well.
Seems like not very good money too!
2 Comments
How sad and this will hurt Amazon in the long run. When it becomes commonly known the degree of fakeness in reviews, they lose all value. I hope they fix this. I will say that if you see a lot of five stars on something that is obviously not five star (or it would’ve been nominated for a prize or well reviewed by major publications), that is a good tip off to lack of authenticity. Also that the reviewers review nothing else.
I simply cannot accept that Amazon, whom I believe to be the most honest retailer in the world today, would tolerate any degree of fakery on their site. One look at a particularly popular product, such as the classic rock album “Who’s Next” by The Who, shows that a diverse range of credible reviews are featured which are pertinent, well-written, carefully researched and always fair.
I’ve also shopped for self-improvement and popular psychology titles on Amazon using their customer reviews as my guide, and I have never come across a fake review even once in all my time as an Amazon customer.
For the record, I think that you’re blog is amazing.