I would like to know what one would want to be paid to read and write book reviews. Any thoughts? Books are delivered to your door, you read it, then write a review and keep the book.

Dotsie, you know me, always looking for ways to make extra $$. I'd like to throw my hat in the ring!

I write book reviews for Long Ridge Writers Group. I also do them for the Boomer women whose books I buy and read but for free. If I were to charge a fee and be able to keep the book I think .03 cents a page would be affordable and fair.

Okay, three cents a page. Any other ideas for what it's worth?

Dotsie,

I went out to the internet and pulled the following info from WritersMarket.com:

Summaries for book clubs/catalogues: $20 low, $40 mid- range, $75 high/hour.
Book summaries for book clubs: $50-100/book.

So I think the quoted 3 cents a page is within reason. I can work for that pricing too.

Patti

Just ask me ladies I researched this many years ago and have been sucessfully doing it since then. Some reviewers get greedy trying to get rich on one customer, not me. Be fair wih your price and you'll be busy all the time.

This was basically my question on the topic "Get Paid to Read?" I would like to proof read, edit, and get paid to do reviews. Chatty, how do you go about getting customers? You said "you'll be busy all the time." Also, I wouldn't expect to be paid to review a boomer sister book, nor have I paid anyone to review my book. But I like writing reviews, and would certainly love to make money on it. I got the guidelines for reviewing for Midwest Book Review, and they don't pay. How do you make that money happen?

At 3 cents a page, you'd have to read 667 pages an hour to make $20/hour. A 250-page book which paid you $50 would mean you got 20 cents/page.

Interesting ladies. Thanks for this information. I appreciate it.

For book reviewing I imagine one could charge whatever they could get someone to pay....Many of you may remember when I began my Real Estate paperwork business operating only in Las Vegas, I was very open and helpful to anyone asking me how to do it too. I gave many of you the complete strategy and full instructions of how to begin as you would not be competition for me....With the editing business its different as every editor everywhere is competition. I had many hits and misses in the beginning before testing my ideas and struggling to find my way, no one helped me and I understood. I charge a competitive fee that will help new writers and even though it is below the average fee charged, I still make a decent amount from each writer and don't gouge them. The writer receives the same results no matter what they pay, a manuscript thats ready for a publisher. Unlike my eagerness to help anyone in the RE business venture the editing business is different as every editor everywhere is competition. I struggled and found the way without any help from anyone, anywhere, and I bet you can all do the same, its really not that difficult. Sorry!