The FTC posted new guidelines about doing reviews of products in blogging posts as I read on the PC Mag post by Editor Dan Costa today. I agree with Dan that the way this is wording is not enforceable being that there are thousands or millions of blog posts each day. I post reviews of books at times. Most of the time I get the book for free for writing up the review and posting to my blog and to Amazon reviews. However, some of the time I post the review for a book that I purchased. I assure you ALL of the time it is a fair review and will not be swayed by any fact about how or where I got the book. This is how I see the book and or product that I’m reviewing. I don’t hold any punches; if the book is crap I’m going to say its crap. If the book is great and the best thing since the dawn of mankind, I’ll say so.
Read my reviews and post any comments of your own. I’m open to any debate on any book or product that I post a review. However, I don’t see the need to add a disclaimer on each posting that I did or did not receive the product for free. I’m not a lawyer but this should be challenged by the freedom of speech act or something.
What do you think?
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