{"id":426,"date":"2007-09-03T19:18:12","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T23:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2007\/09\/03\/publicists-bloggers-more-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2010-01-17T19:56:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T23:56:46","slug":"publicists-bloggers-more-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2007\/09\/03\/publicists-bloggers-more-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Publicists Slipping Bloggers Money? More Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book designer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tianodesign.com\/blog\/\">Stephen Tiano<\/a>, whose blog I just discovered over the weekend, has an interesting response to yesterday&#8217;s post about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/archives\/002140.html\">authors promoting themselves on blogs<\/a>, specifically the passing reference in a <i>NY Times<\/i> article to &#8220;blog tour&#8221; promoters who said they&#8217;d paid bloggers to review their clients&#8217; books, something I&#8217;d never seen verified and which I thought deserved further discussion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was thinking the same thing about bloggers being paid for reviews when I read that,&#8221; Stephen emails. &#8220;For all the baseless whining by print writers about blogs that review books&#8212;and blogger journalism, in general&#8212;here&#8217;s a genuine issue that bears some discussion &#8230; at the very least. I mean, it does seem to strike right at the heart of the integrity of people doing such reviews. Or,<br \/>\nconsidering how many writers who are employees of newspapers and magazines, and also have signed contracts with book publishers, does it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Individual reviewers probably have their own solutions for that, if they even view it as a dilemma: One obvious solution would be to avoid reviewing books from the publisher with whom you have a contract. Any others come to mind?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book designer Stephen Tiano, whose blog I just discovered over the weekend, has an interesting response to yesterday&#8217;s post about authors promoting themselves on blogs, specifically the passing reference in a NY Times article to &#8220;blog tour&#8221; promoters who said they&#8217;d paid bloggers to review their clients&#8217; books, something I&#8217;d never seen verified and which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}