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# Blogging Back-Handers
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2009/07/blogging_back-handers/
- Published: 2009-07-15T12:41:30.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T14:34:29.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: Blogging, ethics, Journalism

An e-mail arrives from one of my stable of bloggers:

> Hi Adam,
> 
> You will be pleased to hear that I am receiving my first back-hander for blogging. As I posted a link to a review about a new book called “*\[Redacted\]*“, which grew out of a blog about the fictional life of a *\[redacted\]*, the author has promised me my very own copy if I promise to do my own review for the blog.
> 
> I am v pleased.

I could be being terribly naive here, but isn’t that called a “review copy” and standard practice? My colleague is going to have to work harder than that before I consider them corrupt. 🙂

(And yes, [Tim](http://www.fwi.co.uk/blogs/rural-life/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com), I am aware that I owe you a review of that camping guidebook)