OnlineBookClub.orgReviews of onlinebookclub.org

They lie and have you do a bunch of stuff to be entered into a raffle. I got an email several times saying I was disqualified. Then once I got an email saying I had been blocked and that my review was plagiarized, and it def was not. I belonged for like 4 years and never got a dime and got kicked out for no reason. If you don’t pay them, or give them something they can make money off of for free, you won’t get a thing.

NO!!!! THIS IS A SCAM. They want you to purchase a book, and they almost never pay you for it. Their "editors" will find anything to give a low enough score so they don't have to pay you. The guidelines are very strict, and you will put in a ton of hours and effort for a few dollars if you're lucky, but most likely you will not ever see any money from this. It is exploitive and should be shut down immediately. Also, the books they want you to read are GARBAGE. Written by weird old people who have no experience or any business writing books, and are paying this website to basically market for them and force people to buy their books. Do not waste your time.

Based on my personal experience, this is how the platform functioned for me. Authors pay the site to have their books reviewed, and reviewers are encouraged to provide detailed feedback. While the platform states that reviews should be honest, I personally observed that reviews with lower ratings (in some cases , even 4 stars won't pass) often did not pass the internal review process. This gave me the impression that higher ratings were preferred. Compensation for reviews was minimal, and activity requirements were not always clearly communicated. At one point, I was removed from the review team without prior notice or proper reasons of why. I only became aware of this after receiving an email stating that I was being given a “second chance.” The email included a link for more information, but the link was broken, so I was unable to access any additional details. Navigating the forum and internal resources was also difficult for me. I work as a technical specialist in a tech company and consider myself very tech-savvy, yet I still found the interface outdated and confusing. This made it harder to understand expectations, policies, and processes. Overall, this was a disappointing experience for me, primarily due to unclear communication and management practices. Edit: I revised my original review after the owner requested its removal as “defamation.” This version reflects my honest personal experience and opinions with OnlineBookClub. As an avid reader, I value transparency and fairness, and this platform ultimately did not align with my expectations.

I have been able to learn what I paid for what service. I wanted to choose a service that would show my memoir on the list of recommended books. I paid $500 for this service but was unable to list my book or ascertain where my $500 went.

I have asked this company on 3 occasions to take me off their mailing list. Nothing. So now I'll ask them publicly. Get me off your mailing list. And, for all those of you who haven't used their service, don't bother. I tried and the reviewer couldn't even write English properly so.......

The site is complicated to navigate. Everything goes back to reading and reviewing the guidelines. There's no actual person to speak with or email with. If you've read them multiple times and still need clarification and help, you can't speak to anyone which becomes frustrated. I love to read and wanted to try reviewing book to make a bit of cash. My first review was for $75 which would've come in handy for me. I completed the book and wrote a review. I made sure it followed the guidelines. I submitted it and there was an issue. I reviewed and fixed it. Suddenly my review was plagiarized and AI. I vehemently denied these claims and told them that my very first submitted review would attest to that including why they thought it was AI. They refused and stood by their decision. The fact that these are level 6 reviewers and our "peers" should speak for something, but they just seem very elitist and non compromising or helpful. The fact they tell you that once you've tried to appeal that you should just take it as a learning experience is very telling. I will not be using this site again and reporting it.

I joined onlinebookclub.org a while back to get a little much needed extra money. I review books already through Goodreads and Amazon for free and have a book blog so it was an easy fit. The guidelines are quite strenuous and despite writing very well written reviews I had to jump through many hoops to get them approved and get paid. The process was quite long. Despite this, I did get $25 for my first review. Later, in January or February of 2025, I downloaded 2 more books and did reviews. It took until April or May to finally get them approved but then it wouldn't pay out because it said I needed to verify my identity. I tried it multiple times and it said that I already did it. I contacted support and they told me it was fine. When it wasn't resolved I contacted again sending screenshots as I did before but was told to video it... I use my phone to review and can not do that which I explained before and there was not any more info to be gained from a video as the screenshots showed everything. I then started getting emails supposedly from the owner of the organization who is trying to sell his new book offering a subscription to his page for $1 and the ability to get my account verified for payment also there was something about ordering his book for an opportunity to advance in ranks but they wanted a crazy number of reviews per week plus the cost to buy this person's book. It all started sounding very fishy. I am currently trying to delete my account with them but I cant even do that! Overall, not worth the time or energy and they are trying to get money from reviewers.

I got a recommendation from this company to purchase a book from Amazon, review it and they would pay $13 as compensation for my time. I did that, followed their review guidelines and submitted my review within 2 weeks. After submission, they claimed my review was written by AI which it wasn't because I read that book from cover to the end and reviewed it myself. They scored me 0 due to 4 grammatical errors noticed in my review. If I had use AI to write the review like they claimed I did, would the editor have noticed a grammatical error. I requested a recheck but they don't care. I requested an admin recheck but that didn't do anything because I thought that would take some time but they got back to me same day repeating the same thing the editor wrote. It's unfair. The website is deceitfully manipulating users by promising to pay for "honest" reviews. Review permission is required for payment, and the approval criteria are arbitrary and purposefully ambiguous. A system that is biased against critical reviews is produced as a result. 40% of the review acceptance is based on the "Editor's subjective rating," according to the website. Reviews may be disqualified based on subjective judgments rather than impartial standards, which introduces an additional, blatant degree of arbitrariness.