Paid To Read Email

The paid e-mail sites tend to be a combination of affiliate marketing and AdSense type programs, and the old "take our survey for a free $100 gift card" or "i-pod" or fill in the blank whatever they offer. Basically they place ads in e-mails and when you read the e-mail, and click on the ad, then you get paid. The ones that pay the most are the ones that take some sort of registration to some program or another.
For example, you may have seen offers for a dell laptop, or a red lobster gift card, or wal mart or whatever, if you take a survey. These tend to be legitimate deals, but you have to complete their program, fully, to receive your reward. Now, to fully complete the program, you have to click through hundreds, perhaps thousands of ads, (I have spent well over an hour on one of these, just clicking skip ad, skip ad, skip ad, skip ad etc. etc.) AND complete two or three offers. The offers are things like, sign up for a magazine subscription, or apply, and get accepted fro a Discover card, or something like that. So the paid e-mail will be an e-mail of one of these offers, and you get paid if you complete the offer.
This is not always the case however, as each paid e-mail sent will be different, but they are all ads.
This really is just pay per click, the difference is that you have the offers e-mailed to you, instead of you searching the Internet for them.