The Larger Picture?

There’s a lot of hullabaloo concerning authors (mostly indie) paying for reviews and one reviewer who made $28000 in one month by providing the service. You can read it here & here.

Do I think an author should pay for a book review? No but I also think there’s a larger picture—or perhaps, a bigger question involved and it revolves around the odd (in my mind) delineations and lines drawn within the publishing industry.

With the paid reviews, this guy is a bad guy for charging for reviews,...