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Originally Posted by tompe
Reviewers usually get sent a lot of books for free. And they do not review all of them. So in a sense they get paid by the publisher by not having to buy any books.
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In my day it used to be normal practice in Fleet Street for newspaper reviewers to sell the books they received. There were several bookshops in the area that made a good living out of it, so presumably the reviewers didn't do badly.