OnlineBookClub.org Reviews 

This is a beautiful way for me to pass time. Is very fun and interesting.

I received exactly what I paid for. No shortcomings.

I completed a paid book review for Online Book Club in May 2025 for the book "Deceptive Calm" with an agreement to be paid $50. It is now January 2026, and I still have not received my payment.
When I attempted to check my payment status through their Review Team payment history tab, I discovered I have been blocked from accessing it. The contact form on their website is not working, and I have received no response to my inquiries.
Being blocked from viewing my own payment history while being owed money for completed work is unacceptable. This appears to be a deliberate attempt to avoid paying reviewers.
I cannot recommend this platform to other reviewers. If you're considering doing paid reviews for Online Book Club, be aware that you may face:
Non-payment for completed work
Blocked access to payment information
Unresponsive customer service
I simply want the $50 I earned for work completed 8 months ago.

Update (26th January 2026)
I asked the company to confirm in writing whether the outstanding $50 payment for my approved review (completed in May 2025) would be issued if I removed this review. That question was not answered.
My account remains suspended, I still cannot access my payment history, and payment has not been made. I also attempted third-party mediation through the Better Business Bureau, but the company declined to resolve the matter.
As of now, the payment for work completed over eight months ago remains unpaid.

Response to Company Comment:
This allegation is being raised for the first time now, more than eight months after the review in question was submitted, reviewed, approved by an editor, and assigned a confirmed review number in May 2025.
At no point during submission or approval was plagiarism or AI use alleged, nor was the review rejected on those grounds. If such issues existed, the review would not have been approved or assigned a review number at the time.
The underlying issue remains unchanged: the review was approved, payment was agreed, and the $50 payment has not been made. I have repeatedly requested clarification and evidence regarding these new claims, but none has been provided.
I remain willing to update this review if and when the outstanding payment for the approved work is issued.
Update ( April 2026)
Till date no response or Payment

As an author, any platform where our work can be reviewed, given visibility, promoted to give us a chance to sell our books, is where we want to be and the onlinebookclub, give us that co-creative experience.

OnLine Book Club has helped whenever I have made requests. They respond quickly and understand what is necessary for a solution. The Support team also express a concern in the needs of their customer. It has been a pleasure to have such a team for support.

The Social networking done to introduce my novel to a wide range of audience was all inclusive and impressive. Because I am not socially (site) adept, I did feel a bit lost at times, trying to navigate from one platform to the next. If there was a way to make this part of the process easier on folks who don't really know Twitter from Instagram, that would be helpful. But as my daughter tells me, get with it, daddy, you should know these things.
I do want to thank you. Overall, I enjoyed the experience. I am not sure yet what the effect of the BOTD will be on any sales of my book so any praise for that will need to wait. C Cee Morris

Muy buena la experiencia

My experience with OnlineBookClub.org has been fantastic! As a book reviewer for OnlineBookClub.org, I have found my experience to be very educational and exciting. The editors are in-depth in constructive criticism, allowing me to learn from my mistakes and progress in my natural talent and desire for writing. The customer service support is always satisfying, with resolutions provided promptly. I am still enjoying my whole experience with OnlineBookClub.org. My recommendation to readers and reviewers alike is to check out the amazing website, OnlineBookClub.org, because you will not be disappointed! All of my thanks to the owner and all who are part of this amazing book club!

Super disappointing. For a while there, you would pay OBC for a review, and your book would get a gushing 5-star review. Now you are paying to have amateurs (some in their early 20s) review your book and trash it or worse, give a raving review for garbage. Total waste of money. Our editorial team submitted a terrible book and it got a GREAT review. It was a test. They failed.

Here's the worst part: They promote themselves as "creating bestsellers" on Amazon. It's easy to be an "Amazon bestseller" if you list your book in an obscure category with only 45 books. It would only take 5 people to read the book in one day for it to hold the top-selling spot in its sub-category. OBC is super deceptive. I've published four mediocre books, and each was a "bestseller" in some obscure category because I had four friends buy it at the same time. What they are doing is promoting these authors online as "We did it again! Another best seller!"

Many of the OBC authors are self-published and produce books that are not particularly good. OBC is selling a dream to these people for hundreds of dollars to promote their book. It's sad and a waste of money.

Ideal para hobby, incluso estudio académico

You mage it easy

The support staff was awesome. They were exceedingly helpful when I had trouble getting my ebook to them. The experience was great. The review was honest.

I got many detailed reviews for my book, and their book-of-the-day feature, for a free book, is worth the money.

It is nice that they pay you to review books. It gives you an opportunity to read a variety of different books and practice your writing. However, the reviewing process is incredibly strict and if you submit something incorrectly they make you redo it. I submitted a review, the author rejected something so I resubmitted it and then I had to resubmit it again and again. This last time I didn't do it and now I am banned which seems rather dramatic. I also was marked for a different error everytime I resubmitted it which seems odd, almost like the reviewers are not allowed to give a perfect score. They owe me $99 for reviews I've completed at this point. Will I get paid for this? I have no idea. At this point I'm done dealing with their games.

Very professional, it's impossible to talk to a person. But they do what they say. Great service!

At first, I had a not-so-great experience with this website. My rating is 4 stars because I did end up getting paid and my issues were resolved!

I signed up a year or two ago and forgot about it. One day, I received an email with an offer: buy and review a $3 book, get paid $75. Cool! I read the book, took notes, wrote a review, did grammar checks, wrote down errors from the book, and took the quiz. I did all that and thought I followed all the guidelines, but I guess not. My review got a score of 5/100 (I think) for two VERY minor grammar errors. Both were "misplaced" commas that I and Grammarly thought were fine. (They say not to rely on grammar checkers, but I did check it myself too). I was also docked points for forgetting to add page numbers to the book errors when taking the quiz. I thought docking that many points for minor errors was unfair. That sucked because it made my overall reviewer score NEGATIVE. This was my first review so it hurt my account and I stayed on Level 0 out of 6. (Level 6 reviewers get paid more per review. I currently get up to $10 bonuses). I worked hard for days to get my score up to Level 1 by posting on forums and such. I fixed my grammar and quiz errors for a resubmission (which you can do up to 3 times over the life of your account). My score increased to 35/100. I am still Level 0.

The book I read required me to leave an Amazon review. I accepted those terms. Turns out, you have to spend at least $40 on Amazon in a year to be able to leave book reviews. I rarely buy anything on Amazon, but I was planning on making a purchase in September (I accepted the book offer at the end of May). I changed my OnlineBookClub settings to show I couldn't leave Amazon reviews. This voided my review and no opportunity to be paid. This was disappointing and I was very upset. I put hours into reading, writing, and going back and forth with customer service on this issue.

I forgot about this until October, but put it off until November. I spent over $40 on Amazon and changed my OnlineBookClub settings. After leaving an Amazon review, I submitted an appeal for my original OnlineBookClub review. My account once again showed I had esrned/was owed $75. It's now November 11 and I got paid today. I waited about 2-4 days, which was sooner than expected!

I went back and forth with customer service on this issue for a few months. I had a couple issues getting my PayPal set up on the website because my OnlineBookClub username didn't match my PayPal name. I changed my username to my real name to fix the issue. It's a bit annoying to share images and screen recordings with customer service because I had to upload everything to my Google Drive and send them the link. However, they were very kind and helpful. I appreciate it! I will continue to use OnlineBookClub because I enjoy reading and the cash bonus is nice.

I paid for a download of the audio book Minimum Wage Millionaire. My browser was highjacked instead. I contacted them numerous times about the download. I was finally given a link that gave me an error. I was told to submit a video of the problem and verify the purchase. I was told to submit my government identification at another site. This was a simple download. I asked numerous times for a refund. I kept getting the run around.
I have filed a complaint. No one told me that I needed to submit my government identification for a simple download. I still need my refund.
I have been bounced around with the customer service. Yes, it was sent to my email to buy the book. No download after many days, no refund.

I read the book, wrote the review, under what I thought was the guidelines. I paid for said book it was NOT free. The review was all within guidelines minus one thing, I didn't put the star rating in the review, I had assumed as one would, that the star rating would automatically be included.

The other 'errors' were all subjective from one of their little wannabe editor minions. Basically I gave an honest long review without spoilers and it was rejected for being honest on the opinions of one person. I had no idea that it would take so long. A honest review by regular people is what they offer authors but that is a lie. They basically are getting people to buy books in order to promote the authors and finding every which way not to pay the reviewers for their honest opinions.

Having realized this during the first review process I cut my losses having only been tricked into one book and asked repeatedly for my account to be deleted.

First it was please remove my work email address and change it to my personal one, which to no avail I only got the runaround and no one could actually help me.

Then after the start of the review process and me realizing this was a giant scam I wanted all of my personal information removed from the database which is my right since I never and would likely never receive a payment.

I did what I was supposed to in order to permanently delete my account and now over a month later I am receiving yet more emails about my review needing to be rewritten. They have now violated my request to be removed from the system on more than one occasion but since my account is 'deleted' there is absolutely no way to contact them about emailing me and still keeping my personal information on file.

Another huge red flag if you ask me. That unless I make an account I cannot contact them about issues.

So here we are. I had considered making this review when I first discovered the scam but thought it was a waste of time but now in direct violation of not removing my personal information I will make sure this review is seen as a warning to others to not use or trust this website.

DO NOT use this site or allow them your valuable time as they will only waste it.