by Ellie Norton

Created on: October 11, 2009

I love reading books and I love reviewing books and so I was really excited to find a website that would pay me for my reviews. Reviewstream is a website that self-reportedly pays you $2.00 per review. You can review anything, nothing is excluded and there are no guidelines, at least that is what the website tells you.

I am going to be upfront and let you know that I do not recommend reviewstream as a website to make money. I cannot recommend them based on the dismal experience I have had with them.

The first review I tried to write was about a bank. Rejected in 2 seconds. Then I tried to write about some cookies I had recently found and liked. Rejected in 2 seconds. Then I tried to review a movie I had recently seen. Rejected in 2 seconds. I wanted to pull my hair out. What was I doing wrong? I had no idea. The site that supposedly accepted every review of anything you could imagine was accepting no reviews.

The format of the website is really poor so there were no faqs to read through, no forum to ask questions and no contact emails to request help. You are truly on your own at reviewstream. I then wrote an article on a book I had recently read and decided to try and enter it. I was amazed to see that it was "accepted." I looked at the word count and realized that they did indeed have one standard, 200 minimum words.

$2.00 for 200 words isn't great but the fact that you could write about anything meant that it could be OK. So I decided to enter 2 more book reviews that I wrote up quickly. Well, I then realized that the initial acceptance wasn't an acceptance of them paying you $2.00. They still wanted to review the article. Fair enough I thought.

I waited one week and tried to find out what was going on through the site but nothing was happening. And then one night I put in my email address and I saw that I had been given $0.40 for the articles instead of $2.00 each as they report on their home page.

I have not written another review for them and I wouldn't recommend that you do either, unless you like to write reviews for fun. Then some money is better than none. If you are interested in looking at other work from home book review jobs click here.

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