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Originally Posted by HarryT
Question: is it wrong to pay people to write unbiased reviews of a book? (It's against Amazon's TOS, but that's a different question).
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Probably not, but keeping that wall of unbiased can be very difficult. What if I like the author personally? What if I loved the first book and not the second and feel really bad about panning it? What if I am hoping to get a free copy of the third? What if I *really* need the money so by God, I'm going to have to write positive reviews so that authors keep paying me.
Of course being paid for honest work is not bad. It's just hard to be completely honest in the face of various realities. Can some people do it? Probably. But suspicious will remain (at least by me because, well, shoot, guys, I write MYSTERIES. There's *always* a bad guy!!!)