If you’re like me, you like to read and would love even more to get paid for time spent reading a good book. Well, there’s good news! You can enjoy making money writing book reviews online!
You probably already know about Amazon.com where you can write book, movie, and music reviews. Unfortunately, you don’t get paid for your reviews on this site. BUT, you can learn alot about how to write a book review by perusing the site and reading what other, more seasoned book reviewers have written. Some of them are quite good at what they do. After you’ve spent some time on the site, register and write a few book reviews of your own. This will be good practice in the art of writing a good book review. You can also build up a name for yourself in this way which can serve you well later.
If you’d like to get paid for writing your book reviews, consider www.reviewstream.com. At first I was quite excited about this site until I discovered, it can be quite difficult to get the maximum earnings for your review. They list a current pay rate for reviews on their home page. BUT, you only get paid that rate if you meet certain criteria established by them which aren’t well defined. If their criteria aren’t met, you get paid the “bulk” rate which is the regular rate divided by 5. Since the regular rate is currently $1.50, the bulk rate would be $0.30. Not exactly a strong motivator to write reviews for them. PLUS, you don’t get paid until you reach their minimum payout criteria of $50.00. If you can somehow manage to write your reviews in such a way to meet all their criteria, this site might have some potential for making money. As it stands right now, it’s a bit of a challenge.
A more promising site is a website called Shvoong at www.shvoong.com. It allows you to write abstracts of books, articles, websites, and more. In turn, you get paid 10% of the advertising revenues your abstracts generate.The minimum payout here is more reasonable at $10.00. Keep in mind it can take alot of abstracts to generate a significant amount of revenue from this site. The site requires each abstract to be from 300 to 900 words in length. if you happen to be able to read and write in another language, you can use your translation skills to earn even more money. Shvoong will pay you 5% of the advertising revenues generated from any abstract you translate into your target language.
Probably one of the more lucrative ways to get paid for writing book reviews is writing reviews for your own website or blog. You can generate revenue one of two ways:
1. By signing up with Google adsense. They give you code to place on your website or blog which will display Google ads targeted to the topic you’re writing about. Each time an ad is clicked, you receive a portion of the revenue.
2. By signing up with Clickbank to receive commissions through marketing their affiliate programs. You can include links to specific products that relate to the product you’re reviewing in your review. If someone clicks on that link and purchases the product, you receive a commission which can be 50% or higher on digital products.
If you’re the kind of person who enjoys the challenge of doing a little more marketing a promoting, writing for your own website or blog may be the best option for you.
As you can see you have a variety of opportunities for making money writing book reviews. Give them a try and see which one works the best for you!
