Food for thought...
Do affiliates compromise more in their reviews? I'd have to analyze reviews and note stats and... Heavens! It's not Bloggergate. But I just clicked on some blogs on my blogroll and am amazed to find so many enrolled in affiliate programs, among them A Common Reader, A Work in Progress, Dovegreyreader, Nonsuch Books, Random Jottings, and The Literary Stew.
A few of these bloggers are really about PR. They say they write only about books they like. I used to suspect some of being marketing firms. And that doesn't mean I don't enjoy them. I DO. Only not always for their book reviews. They're TOO nice, and that means they're unreliable.
But quite a number on my blogroll are NOT enrolled in these programs. I tend to respect their judgment, too. I must admit I feel relieved I'm not the only one not in business. There's something about making money off a blog that doesn't SEEM right to me. I never thought about it, of course, before I read Cleave's Guardian piece, though.
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