Read Books and Get Paid on These Websites
Make money by feeding your inner bibliophile
Reading is a hobby of every successful person; a good book is a brain stimuli that sparks ideas, convictions, and foundations.
From scientists like Bill Nye to widely renowned entrepreneurs like Elon Musk, reading books are a part of their routine, and I’ll go as far as a foundation to why they’re successful in their respective fields.
If you’re interested, I’ve compiled the favorite and recommended books of Elon Musk, check it out:
A book can hold life altering information, stories, thoughts and feelings unlike anything in this world. For example,books like the Harry Potter series can transport you to another and magical world.
The importance of books can’t be underestimated, they can impart knowledge that goes beyond our history, not to mention the vocabulary and thinking skills we can develop through reading.
In fact, for many years, reading was the only source of personal entertainment and maybe that’s why it has such a spotlight put into it. Reading has survived wars and plagues for many years, luckily the benefits of a good book survived along with it.
Through the modernization of our technology, accessing books and writing one has been easier for people.
One good news is that some websites would actually pay you to read books! That’s a win-win for all the bibliophiles like me out here!
Here are 5 websites that will pay you just to read books:
WCWOnline.org
Wellesely Centers for Women has been providing a forum for serious, informed discussion of new writing by and about women since 1983.
Women’s Review of Books provides a unique perspective on today’s literary landscape and features essays and in-depth reviews of new books by and about women.
Since 1983, the Women’s Review of Books has been the premier feminist book review. WRB primarily reviews women’s and gender studies scholarship as well as fiction, poetry, and memoir by women. consider all the books. They review more nonfiction than anything else.
Write a book review by and for women. They pay 0.14$ for every word in your review.
TheUSReview.com
As per their website, The US Review of Books connects authors with professional book reviewers and places their book reviews in front of 18,507 subscribers to their free monthly newsletter of fiction book reviews and nonfiction book reviews.
The US Review of Books is the new model, operating in the freethinking democratic spirit of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine
Payment is made on a monthly basis and varies, although it remains undisclosed.
PublishersWeekly.com
Publishers Weekly is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents.
Published continuously since 1872, it has carried the tagline, “The International News Magazine of Book Publishing and Bookselling.”
You will be reviewing self-published books and the pay remains undisclosed.
OnlineBookClub.org
Online Book Club is a free online community for book lovers and is a free site for readers that has been around for over 10 years even before smartphones were a thing.
You can sign up for free, review books, and leave your honest reviews. The payment ranges from $5 to $60 per book review.
AnySubject.com
According to their website, Any Subject Books is a new look, new style literary agency. Not only do they publish a wide range of books, fiction and non-fiction, but they also provide a full range of economically priced top quality publishing services for the independent author, from cover design to book tours, formatting to ISBN provision.
They promise to:
- Look with a critical and experienced eye at what you send us or tell us.
- Pay attention to the needs of the market
- Respond to any bona-fide request, submission, suggestion etc
- Treat you with the respect you deserve
They prefer to pay on a specific book basis as it depends on a number of factors including word count (it’d be unfair to pay someone the same rate for reading a 10-page short story as 500-page blockbuster).
All you’re agreeing to by signing up is to receive offers of work and to comply with our conditions once they’ve settled on a deal with you.
Just a side note: I am not affiliated to any of the five websites listed above. I’ve made this list for people who are looking to make a few extra income and for book lovers who’d actually get paid by doing what they’re already doing — reading books.
I’m an advocate of side-hustles and having multiple sources of income, if you’re the same, I’ve written a couple of articles like this one that might interest you:
I hope this helps. Keep hustling!
