Hey, do you love reading books? Do you spend hours & hours reading books just like me? If yes, then here’s a good news for you! I’ve found 6 different ways to make money with your passion for reading books. In this post, I’ll go through each of these methods one by one.
Even though you can’t make money reading books for yourself, you can definitely make money by reading books for others and by sharing the things you learned after reading a book. It doesn’t matter what type of books you read, whether you love romantic novels, story books, or books about finance and investing, you can still make money. So, without any further delay, let’s get into our topic.
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1. Become a Freelance Book Reviewer
If you can express your opinions clearly, then being a freelance book reviewer can be a great way to make money. Many authors and book publishers pay freelance book reviewers to review their books in order to promote their book. You can find freelance book reviewing gigs on platforms like Upwork, Fiverr or Freelancer. You can also start your own blog or a YouTube channel to attract more clients as a book reviewer. By becoming a book reviewer, you get a chance to read newly published books for free and make money at the same time. As your reputation grows, you can get more gigs and get paid even more for reviewing books.
How to Get Started?
- Create a blog/YouTube channel and social media handles to promote your book review gig. Don’t forget to include your past works to increase your chances of getting more clients.
- Sign up on freelance sites as a book reviewer to promote your gig.
- Then, reach out to authors and book publishing companies with your portfolio and past book reviews to ask for work.
2. Start a Book Blog or a YouTube Channel
You can start a blog or a YouTube channel to review the books you read. It can be a great way to share your love for books and connect with other avid book lovers like you. As a content creator who reviews books, you can get free books from publishers to review them. Then, you can monetize your book review with ads, affiliate marketing, and sponsored posts. You can also start a membership site, where you can charge a small fee and give access to new book reviews earlier than others. Once your following starts to grow, you can charge money for reviewing books.
How to Get Started?
- First, decide which platform you want to work on, YouTube or a blog. If you’re not camera shy, then creating content for YouTube would be much easier but if you love writing, then blog can be the best way to share your opinion about books.
- After choosing the platform to work on, you need to create and post content consistently. Consistency is the only way to guarantee success.
- Then, you can monetize your content and make money.
3. Become an Audiobook Narrator
If you enjoy reading books aloud, then you can become an audiobook narrator. As audiobooks keep getting more and more popular, audiobook narrators are highly in demand. Several authors and publishers are constantly searching for voice actors to bring their books to life. you can sign up on websites like ACX, Voices.com, and Fiverr to find jobs as an audiobook narrator. As an audiobook narrator, you can get paid on per project or on per hour basis, depending on the client you’ll work with. To become a successful audiobook narrator, you must have a clear and engaging voice that is enjoyable to hear.
How to Get Started?
- First, make sure that you’re good at reading words fluently, otherwise you’ll have face difficulty in pronouncing different words while recoding voice for an audiobook. So, reading practice is a must.
- Then, record a short sample of you narrating an audiobook to showcase your narration skills to your clients.
- After that, create an account on platforms like, ACX and Fiverr.com to find clients for your gig.
- You can also reach out to authors and book publishing companies to ask for audiobook narration jobs.
4. Create Book Summaries and Study Guides
Many people don’t have either, time or patience to read full-length books. So, you can help them to read the entire book in a short period of time by creating book summaries and guides. Such summaries and guides are highly in demand, specially among students and individuals, who wants to find out the main learnings of the book without reading the entire book line by line. You can sell your book summaries on platforms like Amazon, Gumroad, or through your own website. You can even join popular book summary platforms like Blinkist and Instaread as a creator to make money selling your book summaries.
How to Get Started?
- First, choose a book niche to create summaries on. It can be fiction, non-fiction, textbooks or something else. Choose based on what you like to read the most!
- After that, read the books carefully and create summaries. The summary should clearly cover all the main points and plots discussed in the book.
- After your summary is ready, you can list it for sale on platforms like Amazon, Gumroad or Payhip.
- To sell your summaries, you can promote it on online forums and social media groups related to books.
5. Become a Book Editor/Proofreader
If you’re good at grammar and have a strong eye sight to find mistakes, then you can become a book editor or a proofreader and make money. Authors and book publishing companies are always looking to hire proofreaders to find and correct mistakes in their books. So, by becoming a proofreader or a book editor, you can help them to improve their writing by finding and correcting grammatical/spelling errors, and to improve the flow of their writing. As a book editor, you can charge on per hour or per word basis. If you’d like to become a book editor, then platforms like Reedsy or Freelancer can help you connect with clients looking for these services.
How to Get Started?
- At first, you need to strengthen your editing and proofreading skills. You can either take online courses or watch videos on YouTube to improve these skills.
- Then, you need to build a portfolio to showcase your skills. Make sure to add multiple samples of your work in your portfolio.
- After that, you need to create an account on freelance platforms like Reedsy, Freelancer or Fiverr to post your gig.
- At last, you can contact authors and publishing houses to find suitable jobs for you. Remember, to land jobs, you must have a convincing portfolio.
6. Publish Your Own eBook
If you read books a lot, then you must be highly creative person. Your brain must be full of new ideas and stories. So, what can be a better way to monetize it other than creating and selling your own e-book? To create a successful ebook, you must have a unique story and good story telling skills. Platforms like Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) allows you to publish your ebook and earn money every time someone purchases it. So, if you love creative writing along with reading books, then creating and publishing your own ebook might be the best way to make passive income.
How to Get Started?
- Start by creating an outline for your ebook. After your outline is ready, write the ebook. Make sure to divide it into multiple chapters to make it easier for readers to read.
- After your finish writing your book, it’s time to edit and proofread it. Go through your book, find mistakes and correct them.
- Then, create a beautiful cover for your ebook. You can use Canva to do it.
- At this point, your book is ready. Now, you can list it for sale on Amazon KDP, Smashwords or sell it through your own website. You can use Payhip to create a simple website to sell your ebook.
- You can promote your ebook on social media or run paid ads to generate sales.
Conclusion
So, these were 6 different ways to make money utilizing your reading skills. You can start making money with any of these methods from today itself. You can make a good amount of money if you can master any of these 6 skills along with portfolio building and networking skill. Btw, if you know any other method to make money by reading books, then let us know in the comments below. That’s it for today. See you in the next post!
