Paid Reviews

I could scarcely believe my eyes when this job opp popped up in my email last night:

Title: honest book reviews needed
Project ID: 260774

Category: Writing / Editing / Translation
Description:
This project has been modified to comply with the rules here:

You must have an Amazon account for this project, preferably one that you have used to leave book reviews with before (but this is not a most, just having the account is)

We need 5 reviewers for 5 of our newly released titles. We ask that you write a 1-3 Paragraph review with a rating depending on how you like the book (5 being best) of each of the 5 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 $25.00 to $50.00 per 5 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 purchased books from before. (or if you dont you can always go on Amazon and purchase a used book for $2 or $3- to get your account going)

You are bidding on writing 5 reviews and posting them to Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com and lulu.com

This will be monthly process and we are looking for people that we can work with every month if the first time around with you works out well.

If you have samples of previous book reviews that you have written then please let us see what you have, we are only looking for people that can write really well, and provide great reviews.
Ken

Do we really think they would pay for a bad review? I also wonder if the reviewer needs to have read the book, because I don't see an offer to send copies. How about that great pay, too? Five or ten dollars to read a book (maybe), write a review, get it vetted, AND post it on three websites!

I'd love to know which publisher posted this job opening, and if they really pay the peanuts.

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