[jlees]

The point about Amazon Vine is you have to review X products to get more.

So if I've got four books already that I haven't gotten around to reading, and a new one pops up in the newsletter that genuinely sounds worth reading, I'll pop on over to one of the four I have and write a completely fictional review for it based roughly around what everyone else is saying and the book's description.

This enables me to get as much free stuff as possible without reading books that turn out to be nothing like their descriptions. And it's people like me doing this that contribute to the immense Vine bias.

I have read bad books on Vine and reviewed them, I've also read some really good ones, but half the time it's all complete fiction so I can get as much free stuff as possible.