Christian Publishing House book reviews

[pescador]

I received an e-mail from the Christian Publishing House seeking people to review their books. Here's the deal: they will send you Christian books for free to read and review. If you like the book then you're asked to write a positive review of it -- three stars or more -- and publish it on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other sites. If you don't like it you're asked not to write a review at all but to return the book to them for another. After all, they say, they're not in the business of paying for bad reviews.

I wrote them to say that their trying to stifle negative reviews of their books was fundamentally dishonest. Jesus told Phillip to let your 'yes' be 'yes and your 'no' be no'; anything beyond this is from the evil one. Of course they didn't like my response.

On their web site they say "We are seeking truly conservatives writers only. You must recognize the objectiveness of old hermeneutics (grammatical-historical method), while recognizing the dangerous subjectivity the new hermeneutics (historical-critical method)."

Did you also receive this e-mail? Do you know anything about these people?

 

[Wearecommandedtojudge]

Did you also receive this e-mail? Do you know anything about these people?

No but why don't you send them my email. If their books are heretical or just plain garbage they are getting a bad review...if they are good books they are getting good reviews.

BTW from the language they are using I get the sense that they are probably trying to keep the Jesus seminar quacks and their followers away. Don't blaim them for that.

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

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I wrote them to say that their trying to stifle negative reviews of their books was fundamentally dishonest. Jesus told Phillip to let your 'yes' be 'yes and your 'no' be no'; anything beyond this is from the evil one. Of course they didn't like my response.
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Did you also receive this e-mail? Do you know anything about these people?

here's a really big challenge - try to find a business or a government anywhere that doesn't do likewise (try to stifle or eliminate bad reviews about themselves whenever possible, legal or not).