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1 complaint led a Florida school to restrict access to Amanda Gorman's famous poem
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Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel win International Booker Prize for 'Time Shelter'
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Top 10 books about social media
In fiction and in fact, these books trace how in less than 15 years, billions of people have given up a good deal of their waking life to Web 2.0
H as anything ever caused a faster transformation in our practices of living than social media? Fifteen years ago, it barely existed; today, it occupies a large portion of the waking consciousness of a few billion people. It has touched all aspects of life: for many people, their most intimate conceptions of themselves, their relations to other people, their political commitments, and their sexuality – as well as their basic livelihoods – are now tangled up in the loose cluster of phenomena known as Web 2.0 .
“In the destructive element immerse,” urged Joseph Conrad in 1900. My new novel, Viral , plunges into the world of social media’s makers, at a decadent mid-stage in its short history: the moment in the mid-2010s when the possibilities of social as a vast advertising platform started to be harnessed in a new way. Before that, the platforms tried to downplay the fact that they were advertising companies; the marketing happened in the gaps between the user content, just an annoying sidebar. Now there is no division: the user content is the marketing content, and “social-first” is a far more powerful tool for brand promotion than traditional advertising. In Viral, I imagine a crew of half-credulous, half-cynical, mainly British ex-pats in Berlin in 2015, riding the first wave of social media marketing, and finding that it leads them into unexpected waters.
The 10 books I’ve chosen here trace the development of social media across the last decade, explore its effects in everyday life, and place it in its wider context. They share a sense of its enormous dynamism and power, as well as its vertiginous capacity for harm.
1. Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino Tolentino’s essay The I in the Internet , the first chapter in Trick Mirror, is perhaps the most important single text on life as a user of social media, as it tracks the slow souring of the dream of total connectivity within her lifetime. She locates 2012 as the moment when the balance shifted: “Where we had once been free to be ourselves online, we were now chained to ourselves online.” While Tolentino acknowledges the valuable things that have been enabled by social media – including the #MeToo movement, and her own career as a writer after a decade of marketising her selfhood – her conclusions about its future are pessimistic, since Web 2.0 is “governed by incentives that make it impossible to be a full person while interacting with it”.
2. The Twittering Machine by Richard Seymour Seymour is wide-ranging in his analysis of the destructive effects of the “social industry” on personal and political life. He shows how the “variable rewards” of social media alerts are geared to perpetuate addictive and depressive cycles of engagement; how the imperative to think of yourself as a micro-celebrity, with a personal brand that constantly needs to be maintained and is always in danger of trashing, has poisoned private life; how the attention economy incentivises trolling and reactionary politics; and how the “degradation of information” perpetuated by social media outruns even liberal diagnoses of Trumpian “fake news”. By the end, if you weren’t already, you will be on the verge of deleting your Twitter account. And yet Seymour himself is still on there, professionally compelled as a freelance writer to plug into the machine …
3. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff If Seymour doesn’t convince you to delete, Zuboff just might. Her study of how private experience has been colonised by data-harvesting tech firms (not just social media platforms but also Google), expropriating and monetising every aspect of our thoughts, choices and bodily lives, reveals how easily we as citizens have connived at the process.
4. The Circle by Dave Eggers “Secrets are lies”, “Sharing is caring” and “Privacy is theft” run the mantras of The Circle, the Facebook-like corporation in Eggers’ dystopian novel, intuiting the erosion of private human experience that Zuboff would later analyse. Protagonist Mia begins the novel as a newbie struggling with the total participation demanded by the company, and ends up going fully “transparent”, relaying all of her experience on to the internet in real time.
5. The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich It all seemed to start so innocently. Mezrich’s work of racy narrative journalism, on which the movie The Social Network was based, frames Facebook’s founding as the story of a few enterprising and status-hungry dorks with some vague ideas about moving social life online. What rings true about the book 11 years on is the sense that the new plutocrats who run the social industries never had, and still don’t have, any persuasive or even interesting political understanding, despite being among the most politically influential people alive today.
6. Tweets and the Streets by Paolo Gerbaudo For all its downsides, social media has undoubtedly broken down traditional barriers to publication for people of marginal or dissident views, and given social movements new, unregulated ways of spreading. Gerbaudo’s book is a report from the moment of maximum optimism about these possibilities – 2011, Time magazine’s “year of the protester”. Activism and social media use seemed fluently synchronised, as the Arab Spring, the indignados in Spain, and the worldwide Occupy movement looked set to make a permanent dent in the neoliberal world order. Almost a decade on, the revolutionary potential of social media seems overrated – perhaps its most effective exploiters were Islamic State in 2014–15. Still, Garbaudo’s book and his subsequent work on digital activism are essential guides to our shifting, volatile political moment.
7. Crudo by Olivia Laing “ None of it was funny, or maybe it all was,” writes Laing’s autofictional protagonist, looking at Twitter in the summer of 2017. Crudo is a remarkable experiment in writing to the moment and it captures the flattening effect by which the contents of one’s social timeline are folded into daily experience. The outrages of the Trump presidency, environmental catastrophes, and petty internet squabbles and jealousies all have the same status in the weirdly becalmed life of the social media user – and Crudo, as its title suggests, serves them up raw.
8. Sympathy by Olivia Sudjic Where Crudo – or my novels, for that matter – reflect the experience of internet immigrants, who only started to go online in early adulthood, Sympathy is perhaps the first mature literary novel written from an internet-native perspective. Sudjic’s tale of Instagram obsession is as dreamlike in its form, associative and tunnel-visioned as a trip down a social-media rabbit hole.
9. Taipei by Tao Lin Cultural theorist Mark Fisher coined the phrase “depressive hedonia” to describe the state in which many young people now live, caught in a perpetual loop of joyless stimulation. Lin’s third novel both describes this state and mimics it for the reader, as its action listlessly moves from messing around on social media to taking prescription drugs and back again, managing to be at once richly boring and numbingly compelling.
10. Platform Capitalism by Nick Srnicek One for the eggheads. It would be easy to think of social media companies as unique phenomena thrown up by accident in the 21st century. Srnicek’s economic history of digital technology puts the emergence of platform capitalism – the rise of companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Uber and Airbnb, which own few assets and produce nothing, but rather provide platforms on which others operate – into context within the history of capitalist production, as a response to the slow decline in manufacturing profitability over the last few decades.
Viral by Matthew Sperling is published by Quercus. To order a copy, go to guardianbookshop.com .
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15 Free eBooks on New Media Studies & the Digital Humanities
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Worth noting: digitalculturebooks is an imprint of the University of Michigan Press dedicated to publishing books on new media studies and digital humanities. Committed to openness, the imprint typically releases its titles under a Creative Commons (CC) license that lets you read the works online for free. You can also make non-commercial use of the texts without getting permission (or paying fees) so long as you give proper attribution. Below, we have listed the texts (and the series in which they appear). Click the links below, then look for the “ Read for free online” link beneath each author’s name. And you’ll be good to go. We have more free ebooks in two collections: 600 Free eBooks for iPad, Kindle & Other Devices and 170 Free Textbooks: A Meta Collection .
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- Pastplay: Teaching and Learning History with Technology by Kevin Kee
- Writing History in the Digital Age by Kristen Nawrotzki and Jack Dougherty
- Hacking the Academy: New Approaches to Scholarship and Teaching from Digital Humanities Edited by Daniel J. Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt
- Teaching History in the Digital Age by T. Mills Kelly
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- Myst and Riven: The World of the D’ni by Mark J. P. Wolf
- Silent Hill: The Terror Engine by Bernard Perron
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- When Media Are New: Understanding the Dynamics of New Media Adoption and Use by John Carey and Martin C. J. Elton
- Broadcasting, Voice, and Accountability: A Public Interest Approach to Policy, Law, and Regulation by Steve Buckley, Kreszentia Duer, Toby Mendel, and Sean O’Siochru with Monroe E. Price and Marc Raboy
- Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China by Monroe E. Price and Daniel Dayan, Editors
- The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age Edited by Joseph Turow and Lokman Tsui
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- Digital Tools in Urban Schools: Mediating a Remix of Learning by Jabari Mahiri
- Home Truths? Video Production and Domestic Life by David Buckingham, Maria Pini and Rebekah Willett
- My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft by Bonnie A. Nardi
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4 new books by Filipino authors to read this spring
A baking book with a recipe for adobo-flavored chocolate chip cookies. A thrilling graphic novel inspired by film noir. A lively children's book about a little Filipino girl waiting for her dad to join her in the States.
This season's newest books by Filipino authors offer something for every kind of reader. And they tackle a wide range of issues regarding Filipinos and the diaspora, from adapting to a new country to reckoning with the Philippines' colonial history.
A delightful baking book that blends tropical and American flavors
Mayumu: Filipino American Desserts Remixed feels like what an Alice in Wonderland tea party would look like if a Filipino hosted it. The cookbook has gorgeous recipes for caramelized banana and jackfruit jam, ube macapuno molten lava cakes, mango float cream puffs and an intriguing adobo-flavored chocolate chip cookie.
These concoctions are from the magical mind of Abi Balingit, a Filipino American baker and blogger who in 2020 started ramping up her dessert-making game to pass the time during the pandemic. Blending island ingredients like coconut, jackfruit, mango and kalamansi , or native lime, with American flavors like red velvet, marshmallow and poppy seed in her recipes, this cookbook is not to be missed.
A sweet kids' book about a girl waiting for her dad to join her in the States
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Sterling's descriptive writing uses all five senses to evoke American and Philippine culture, from the flavors of saltwater taffy and shrimp paste to the feeling of "pumpkin mush" at Halloween and the "crinkly yellow paper" of a package from her dad. Paired with sumptuous illustrations of the changing seasons and family life by Filipino Canadian artist Sarah Gonzalez, these sensations come alive on every page.
A page-turner of a graphic novel set in Depression-era California
Cartoonist Rina Ayuyang's thrilling, fast-paced graphic novel The Man in the McIntosh Suit goes back in time to California in the late 1920s, when Filipinos arrived to the U.S. hoping to strike it rich — but faced the harsh reality of racial discrimination and restrictions on everything from jobs to property rights.
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George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire book series has been a fantasy stalwart since it first debuted in 1996, and it’s only grown in influence thanks to HBO’s Game of Thrones . Maybe even more importantly, the series’ highly debated ending (or on the other end of the spectrum, the mostly beloved first season of House of the Dragon ) made the prospect of experiencing Martin’s original vision even more appealing... even if it isn’t finished yet .
While the order of the books is old-hat to most experienced A Song of Ice and Fire fans, the best order to read everything in can be a little confusing for new readers. Meanwhile, seasoned fans might want a new or unique way to revisit the universe. So, to help both of those groups out, we’ve compiled a list of the best order to read A Song of Ice and Fire in. Whether you’re just jumping into Westeros for the first time, or rereading the books for the dozenth time in preparation for the eventual (hopefully) release of The Winds of Winter , there are options.
Reading A Song of Ice and Fire in release order
If you’re reading this series for the first time, this is probably the best, safest option — and probably the one you’re looking for. Reading these in release order lets the focus remain on the central Song of Ice and Fire story. Martin would go on to build out the world of Westeros with the Tales of Dunk and Egg stories, so it’s best to mix those in at his pace. This order ignores the smaller releases of stories that were eventually fed into Fire & Blood in favor of waiting for the end of A Dance with Dragons , where the entire history fits best.
- A Game of Thrones
- “ The Hedge Knight ” (from A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms )
- A Clash of Kings
- A Storm of Swords
- “The Sworn Sword ” (from A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms )
- A Feast for Crows
- “ The Mystery Knight ” (from A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms )
- A Dance with Dragons
- Fire & Blood
A Song of Ice and Fire books in chronological order of Westeros history
If this is your first time reading this series, please don’t read it in this order. It will certainly make sense, and work well enough for world building, but the narrative itself will be significantly less interesting and the style much less fun — since you’re starting with a history book and a short story collection, rather than the main novels. But it is a path!
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
A Song of Ice and Fire world-building order
This order isn’t much better for new fans than the chronological one, but it is a fairly interesting order for anyone looking to reread A Song of Ice and Fire. This order emphasizes the main story while supplementing it with context and world-building stories from A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms . And the most important addition is pivoting to dig into Westeros history by reading Fire & Blood just after finishing A Storm of Swords , before Martin opens up the wider world of the stories with A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons .
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What is New Media?
New media doesn’t necessarily refer to a specific mode of communication. Some types of new media, such as an online newspaper, are also “old media” in the form of a traditional printed newspaper. Other new media are entirely new, such as a podcast or smartphone app. It becomes even more complicated to define when you consider that as technology continues to advance, the definition continually changes.
New media is any media—from newspaper articles and blogs to music and podcasts—that are delivered digitally. From a website or email to mobile phones and streaming apps, any internet-related form of communication can be considered new media.
Earning a new media degree can be an excellent way to develop a wide array of skills to work in media and technology across many industries.
“I think a degree in new media is of value because it helps hone the skills necessary to succeed in this industry, like writing, graphic design, video production and marketing,” said Christine Bord , an adjunct instructor in Southern New Hampshire University’s (SNHU) liberal arts program . “This is also a very competitive field, and many employers are looking for candidates who have a degree in media and marketing.”
What Are Examples of New Media?
The New Media Institute defines new media as “a catchall term used to define all that is related to the internet and the interplay between technology, images and sound.” That's in contrast to “old media,” which PCMag defines as all forms of communication that came before digital technology, including “radio and TV and printed materials such as books and magazines.”
It also constantly changes. As new technology is developed and widely adopted, what is considered new continues to morph. Once upon a time, DVDs and CDs were the latest way to watch movies and listen to music. Now, streaming services such as Netflix and Spotify are more popular.
Just a few examples of new media include:
- Music and television streaming services
- Social media networks
- Virtual and augmented reality
“I think the most important thing to know about new media is that it is always changing,” Bord said. “Though this does make it a challenging field because professionals have to be aware of the constant changes in trends and technologies, it also makes it a very exciting and dynamic field to enter.”
Careers in New Media
Media is a vast industry that encompasses dozens of job roles that leverage skills ranging from writing and oral communication to coding, graphic design and more. Some common job roles for someone with a new media degree can include social media manager, public relations specialist and marketing executive, Bord said.
But you don’t have to work in new media to leverage skills you develop in a new media degree program. Robert Krueger teaches in SNHU’s master's in communication program . He said students often go on to work at communication and government agencies, hospitals and nonprofits.
“We also see a lot of journalists making the transition to communications, as well as high school teachers taking the next step by aspiring to become a professor at the college level,” Krueger said.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) tracks many positions that new media professionals work in, including:
Social Media Specialist
Social media specialists are experts at representing a company or brand in the public sphere through social media networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. They create and post content and communicate with customers.
Social media specialists usually have a bachelor’s degree in social media marketing or a related program, and they have familiarity with social media platforms and best practices. In 2022, according to Glassdoor, social media specialists made a median salary of $47,625 .
Public Relations Specialists
Public relations specialists also help maintain and improve a company’s public reputation and image but generally do so by working with media members in person and via press releases and other measures. They can also be in charge of other corporate communications, including speeches given by company leaders.
Public relations specialists typically need a public relations degree or an education in a related field, such as journalism, communications, English or business. They rely heavily on their interpersonal, organizational and communication skills .
Public relations specialists made a median salary of $62,800 in 2021, and the field is expected to grow by 8% through 2031, according to BLS.
Graphic Designer
As a graphic designer, you would be charged with creating visual images using computer software to market products and services and to tell stories. You would work with images and text and decide how they work together to effectively communicate via a website, brochure, magazine or advertisement, according to BLS.
To become a graphic designer , you'll typically need a degree in graphic design or a related field. In 2021, graphic designers made a median salary of $50,710 , and the field is expected to grow by 3% through 2031, according to BLS.
Editors are in charge of reviewing, correcting and improving content across all types of publishing formats, many of which are now delivered to readers and viewers digitally. As an editor, you may also be in charge of supervising writers and working with them to improve their writing, as well as developing content and content strategies, and ensuring all content conforms to your publication's style and editorial guidelines.
Editors typically need to earn a bachelor’s degree, often in communications, journalism or English, and usually start their careers as writers or editorial assistants. In 2021, editors made a median salary of $63,350 , according to BLS.
Photographer
Photographers are a good example of a profession that has had to adapt from “old media” to new media as technology evolved. Instead of film and a developing room, photographers today are armed with digital cameras and are adept at working with a wide range of computer software. Many photographers are self-employed and can specialize in certain types of photography , such as:
- Aerial photography
- Commercial photography
- Drone photography
- Fine art photography
- News photography
- Portrait photography
While a college degree isn’t required, many aspiring photographers choose to attend post-high school training programs to develop their skills. Many entry-level photojournalist positions do require a photography degree , and business and marketing degrees can be helpful for self-employed photographers.
In 2021, photographers made a median salary of $38,950 with a 9% job growth through 2031, according to BLS.
Marketing Manager
Marketing managers are executives who plan marketing and advertising campaigns based on market research and analysis and develop strategies to promote products and services to customers. As a marketing manager, you might also be charged with hiring promotions and marketing staff, meeting with clients and collaborating with other executives in a company—including public relations, sales and product development—to coordinate the role of marketing strategies within the larger company goals.
Marketing managers need a bachelor’s degree and usually have prior experience working in other marketing, promotions or advertising roles. Some employers emphasize the need for strong analytical, decision making, organizational and communication skills and creativity.
Marketing managers made a median salary of $133,380 in 2021, and the position is expected to grow by 10% through 2031.
In addition to those positions, Krueger said the value of a new media degree can open up some industries that might not be obvious to you.
“Just as the saying goes about every business needs an accountant, I think that no business exists without a communications professional,” he said. “Most recently, I have come across many new media professionals who work in-house for large financial institutions and law firms.”
Bord agreed and said virtually every business needs to have a digital presence and should be interested in hiring media professionals.
“If you can think of an industry, chances are there is a new media position available within it,” she said.
New Media Skills
By studying and working in new media, professionals in the field can develop strong and marketable skills that are valuable across a vast range of industries. From writing, editing and design to marketing and public relations, these skills can help you market yourself to too many types of employers to list.
“While studying new media, students will learn theoretical and tactical skills in social media, video, digital marketing, public relations and other areas of communication,” Krueger said. “We look to prepare students to be leaders in their field, which is why we focus on how to strategize and offer consultation to CEOs and C-suite members when given a seat at the table.”
As a new media professional, you can bring value to a company or organization because you will be prepared to apply your technical and soft skills to adapt to the ever-changing landscape in the field.
“Students in this area bring know-how in the art of messaging and that intersection with technology,” Krueger said. “As a professor who also works for a large global company, I assure you these are the skills that make communicators succeed out in the field.”
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The 18 best ways to make money by reading, from submitting book reviews for cash to narrating audiobooks
- Zulie Rane earns six figures as a freelance content creator.
- She always wanted to earn money from reading books, but said the best way to do that doesn't exist.
- Rane said one of the funnest ways to make money by reading books is to create a social media page.
When I was younger, it was always my dream to become a professional reader. I wanted my entire day job to be reading books, thinking critically about what was good, what was bad, and what I would change, and then sharing my thoughts with other people. I really expected this to be a full-time job.
Unfortunately, there's no book-reading degree. You can't get a nine-to-five job as a professional book reader. (At least not yet.) But it is possible to make money by reading books online and offline. I've got 18 ways listed right here. Some of these are pretty typical, and some of these are a little more unconventional, but all of these will result in you earning money from reading books.
I've separated these into four different categories of ways to make money from reading books: social media, jobs, review sites, and others.
Make money reading books for social media
One of the most standard and fun ways to make money by reading books is to create a social media profile where you gain a reputation for reading books, having interesting thoughts, and influencing others to read or not read particular books.
All you need to get started is a way to post. You don't even need to buy books at first – use a library card or a Hoopla account to read books for free.
Here are a few of the best ways to make money by reading books using social media.
1. Post your video thoughts on BookTok (and BookTube, and BookStagram)
TikTok gets a bad rap, but it's actually boosting literacy rates in America. I personally have read plenty of BookTok books that I loved, including The Hating Game, anything by Emily Henry, and The Song of Achilles, to name a few.
The good news is that BookTok is one of the best ways to make money by reading books.
Here's how it works. This process is similar to any of the video-format book reviews.
First, create an account. Make it clear that it's about book reviews. Explain what genre of books you like.
Then, start reviewing books. This requires a bit of thought - how can you make your videos stand out? How can you gain a reputation as a thoughtful, trustworthy Bookfluencer?
After that, join the creator fund whenever you're eligible. In 2021, Cait Jacobs went on the record to state that TikTok's creator fund only nets you 2 to 4 cents per 1,000 views, so you'd need between 25,000 to 50,000 views to earn just a dollar.
However, sponsorships are also a lucrative and potential source of income.
Create the video once, then cross-post it on all three video channels to get the most bang for your buck. It may take some time, but you can earn money by reading books this way.
2. Write your review on a blog to earn money by reading books
What better way to make money by reading than penning an homage to the book with the written word? Blogs are a great way to make money by reading books. It's a less demanding schedule than video content, so you can post once or twice a week as you read and review books, and slowly gain an audience that way.
Whack ads on that bad boy and you're good to go. It may take a while to start gaining traction, but if you truly love books, you're reading them anyway, just post your reviews on your own website instead of (or in addition to) Goodreads.
3. Post about books on Medium
Medium has a royalty payment scheme. The way it works is when a paying Medium member reads your post, you earn a small portion of their monthly membership fee. More views = more money.
Post your book reviews on a publication like Books Are Our Superpower and make money by reading books that way.
This is a really great way to do it because it's simple. You don't need to do any SEO to get money from ad views. You don't even need to host your own website. Just post your thoughts, get 100 followers, and start making money by reading books and posting your thoughts.
4. Podcast it, baby
Podcasts work similarly to BookTok or Bookstagram to make money by reading books, except instead of recording both voice and face, it's just your voice.
Grab a cohost or DIY. Share your latest thoughts on the books you read. Earn money through sponsorships.
Right now, most podcasts don't earn money through anything by ads, but if your podcast grows bigger, you can leverage your audience to get Patreon support, sell bonus content, or get some kind of exclusive deal with a podcasting company.
5. Use affiliate links
Affiliate links kind of pervade all these methods, but they're big enough that I'm giving them their own category as one of the best ways to make money by reading books.
Here's how you can make money reading books by using affiliate links.
First, join an affiliate program like Bookshop.org (my personal fave).
Then, read a book.
Find the book on Bookshop.org.
Make a recommendation to a friend, on your blog, podcast, social media post, or newsletter.
When someone buys that book thanks to your recommendation, you earn 10% of the sale.
That's it! It's highly scalable – you can make a few bucks right away with just a single sale, and then as your platform grows, you'll earn more and more.
Freelance or jobs
What if you don't want to get a whole new social media profile? What if you want to be paid today, not in three months when the first ad revenue trickles in, or your first sponsor comes through?
Consider a career pivot or a side hustle. Freelance gigs or actual jobs are some of the best ways to make money by reading books. Pros: money right away. Cons: not as much control over the books you read.
Here are your options. I've included both full-time, 9-5 career options as well as more casual pay-as-you-go gigs to make money by reading books.
6. Narrate audiobooks
Who amongst us has never heard the dulcet tones of an audiobook reader? Nobody. (My personal fave? Moira Quirk's rendition of Gideon the Ninth .)
The good news is that if you're in possession of a dulcet tone of your own, you are in high demand as an audiobook narrator. You can make money reading books aloud. Fun fact: Audiobooks are becoming more and more popular. Over the last 10 years, the proportion of U.S. adults who have read an audiobook has doubled . No wonder you can get paid to read books for Audible.
Here are two programs where you can upload a few samples, get contracts, and get paid for reading books (or narrating them).
With ACX , which is Amazon's/Audible's program, you can choose a royalty share or a per-finished-hour rate. Rates typically go for around $250 PFH or more. Amazon – read books for money.
Findaway Voices is a similar program. The rates are similar. You can sign up, upload samples, and get picked based on your accent or liveliness. One thing I prefer about Findaway Voices versus ACX is that FV helps authors get books into libraries. Not only do I love libraries, but this also helps you get extra money.
I recommend you do both.
7. Indulge your grammar nerd and become an editor
This is both a career option and a freelance option. Depending on how much education you have, you can either apply for full-time editing jobs or just post your gig on a platform like Upwork or Fiverr.
(I've talked about whether Fiverr is good for beginners here if you want to read more.)
Editing can be both grammatical pickups, but also more structural or developmental editing. This is a great way to get paid to read books because it'll actually strengthen your craft, too.
8. Become a literary agent
This is a career option. It's a very romantic way to make money by reading books if you ask me. It's your job to pick out the finest, overlooked manuscripts, read them, and make them shine. Behind every single one of your favorite books is a literary agent who believed in it long before you did.
If you don't have the right qualifications, I recommend you start with an internship. Start networking heavily, because your job is knowing the right people. Understand the publishing process inside and out. Then get paid for reading books, even if they're unpublished.
TCK Publishing has a good guide on how to get started.
9. Translate books
Know more than one language? Amazing news – you can get paid to read books in English, Spanish, or any other language and translating them. I love reading books in Spanish, German, and English, so I'm very grateful to the translators who help share works in other languages with me.
Alternatively, you can also proofread books in another language. Places like FlexJobs , Fiverr , Upwork , Babelcube , and Ulatus are good places to look for these kinds of jobs.
This can be a career or just a gig, depending on your passion for the job.
10. Proofread books
This can be a full-time career, but more commonly it's a side hustle. I think it's one of the best ways to make money reading books because, by the time a proofreader comes aboard, the book is typically more polished and ready for publishing. Editors have to deal with the raw material, but proofreaders are just looking for small errors.
You need a critical eye and an active grammar checker in your head at all times, but it's possible to make money reading books this way.
11. Design book covers
This one's a curveball! Do you have good design instincts? Maybe you're even a graphic designer? Then this is one of the best ways to make money by reading books for you.
You'll get to read books, think about how you'd convey the main vibe, design a book cover, and get paid.
You can go in both directions here – either go freelance or apply for in-house jobs as a book cover designer. Either will result in a great way to make money by reading books.
Again, this is later on in the process so you'll get to read an almost ready-for-publish book. I also consider this to be a big deal for the author. Your cover will be one of the most influential factors in the book's success.
Submit reviews
Onto method three: submitting reviews for cash. This is probably the simplest method since it involves just three steps: you read a book, you pen your thoughts, and you submit to one of the five platforms I'm about to suggest to you. Boom, you've made money by reading books. This is probably the fastest way to get paid $200 to read books.
You probably already know typical places like Kirkus Reviews pay for reading books, so here are five more unheard-of five platforms I think are best to make money by reading books.
12. Booklist
Can you write 150 to 175 words about why you liked or didn't like a book? You need to be able to describe the plot and suggest an ideal audience. If so, Booklist may be for you. Here are some examples.
These pay $15 each. You don't need a library degree, just a familiarity with books and libraries to apply.
13. The US Review of Books
This is more of a freelance position that you can tackle later on in your career as a paid book reader. You'll need to contact the editor with a resume, sample work, and at least two professional references.
They ask that your review be 250-300 words long, with a summary as well as additional insights from the book. Check out examples here . The reviews are paid, but they don't say exactly how much.
Reedsy operates a little differently. Rather than paying you for reviews, you get paid for reading books when you earn a tip. Basically, you write a review, post it on the site, and wait. If a reader loves your review, they may tip you $1, $3, or $5.
15. Bookbrowse
Bookbrowse is another great place to submit reviews. They promise a "modest payment," and normally assign one review per month to their reviewers. They also ask that you come armed to your application having read some sample reviews and with a few quality samples of at least 300 words yourself.
16. Online Book Club
For your first review, you won't actually earn any cash – you'll just be sent a free book. Not so bad, right?
But after your first sample book, you'll be eligible for paid book review opportunities. You can earn anywhere between $5 to $60 per book review.
You don't have to apply – just enter your email address and sign up. I was able to sign up and nab a free book within about a minute. After that, you have to confirm the download within an hour and submit a review within 14 days.
Miscellaneous ways of making money by reading books
These two are still great, but they didn't fit neatly into the other categories of the best ways to make money by reading books. Hence, they get their own category.
17. Create a paid book club
For this one, you just need friends (or a social circle). Pick a book, create some buzz, request a small payment for organizing, and set up a book club.
I pay $5/month for membership to my local book club, and I consider it money well spent. Once a month, I get an evening with pals, talking about a book. I didn't have to organize it at all. The organizer, Alice, earns between $25-75 a month depending on how many folks come.
This won't make you rich, but it is a great way to make money reading books because you'll get to read books you actually love and are excited to read. Plus, you get to hang out with friends.
18. Join apps that pay you to read
Booksta claims to let you "get paid to read." Sounds promising! This was the only "read and earn money" app I could find.
The way it works is you read a book, take a quiz on Booksta, and then earn Booksta coins based on your score.
Booksta coins are valued at $5/coin. There's some confusion on the site about whether the coin is actually transferable to real USD, or whether it's simply a guess for what that coin will be worth once it's all "on a Blockchain platform as a currency."
I'm leery whenever I see the word "Blockchain," but don't let my suspicions hold you back!
The best way to make money by reading books doesn't exist yet
In my dreams, there is a future utopia. In that future, I read the books I want comfortably, and earn a living wage by doing so. However, we are not yet in that utopia. Today, the main best ways to make money by reading books are:
Posting content on social media
Getting freelance gigs editing, designing, or proofreading
Submitting reviews to paid platforms
A few other rogue options like starting a paid book club or trying out novelty apps
Maybe one day my utopia will exist. Until then, I hope this article helps you find the best ways to make money by reading books.
Zulie Rane is a freelance content creator who writes and blogs.
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Campus map launches new inclusive filter options
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Northwestern community members will have a simplified time finding all-gender bathrooms and rooms for lactation, thanks to an update to the campus maps system .
The new update allows users to apply filters to downtown and Evanston campus maps, selecting options including all-gender restrooms, lactation rooms, libraries and bike racks. The map also provides important guidance on how to access lactation rooms throughout campus buildings. In addition to easing access to existing resources, the map also serves to identify where more or better facilities are needed.
Inclusive campus maps have been historically maintained by organizations from across Northwestern, including the Multicultural Students Association (MSA) and Out Network, Northwestern’s LGBTQIA+ faculty and staff affinity group. Matthew Ahmed Abtahi, assistant director of the MSA, said most of the original map was built by user input from students and community members.
“In early 2020, I walked the entire Evanston campus east of Sheridan Road, going into every building to locate every bathroom alluded to on an Excel spreadsheet of single-stall bathrooms,” Abtahi said.
This new feature is a big step towards making our campus easier to navigate and also sends an important message about inclusivity.”
Abtahi added that folks can submit an addition to the map through a form on the map page, at which point they or a Facilities member will walk to the space to ensure it is ADA-accessible and doesn’t require special access.
Transitioning to a central platform for specific accessibility needs pertaining to maps represents a University-wide drive to create a more inclusive campus community. The Women’s Center and the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion (OIDI) have implemented various trainings and supported affinity spaces that apply to LGBTQIA+ faculty, students and staff. The Women’s Center, with OIDI’s support, has hosted three Gender Inclusive Language workshops in May that discussed fundamental concepts of gender identity and language, and has more planned .
“The Women’s Center offers educational opportunities on gender expansive identities and action toward gender justice to staff, students and faculty,” said Sarah Brown, director of the Women’s Center. “We encourage folks to watch out for quarterly trans-centered programming at our centers.”
To find upcoming trainings, along with additional resources, visit OIDI’s Gender Inclusive Initiatives webpage.
“Our community has been asking for a more centralized way to access this important information,” said Michelle Manno, the assistant provost for diversity and inclusion.
“Now, instead of having to search multiple places on our website to find an all-gender bathroom or a lactation space, campus members can go to one place for everything. This new feature is a big step towards making our campus easier to navigate and also sends an important message about inclusivity.”
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This book addresses New Media art as a specific art historical movement, focusing not only on technologies and forms but also on thematic content and conceptual strategies. New Media art often involves appropriation, collaboration, and the free sharing of ideas and expressions, and frequently addresses the political ramifications of technology ...
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The authors introduce a wide variety of topics including: how to define the characteristics of new media; social and political uses of new media and new communications; new media technologies, politics and globalization; everyday life and new media; theories of interactivity, simulation, the new media economy; cybernetics, cyberculture, the hist...
New Media & Society engages in critical discussions of the key issues arising from the scale and speed of new media development, drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and on both theoretical and empirical research. View full journal description. This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
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Digital storytelling, mediatized stories: self-representations in new media by Knut Lundby, ed. Call Number: Baker-Berry Cook QA 76.76 .I59 D57 2009. ISBN: 9781433102745. Recent years have seen amateur personal stories, focusing on «me», flourish on social networking sites and in digital storytelling workshops.
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The New Influencers: A Marketerâ s Guide to the New Social Media (Books to Build Your) Paul Gillin. Published by Quill Driver Books, 2007. ISBN 10: 1884956947 ISBN 13: 9781884956942. Seller: Hippo Books, Hammond, IN, U.S.A. Seller Rating: Contact seller. Book. Used ...
The New Media Institute defines new media as "a catchall term used to define all that is related to the internet and the interplay between technology, images and sound.". That's in contrast to "old media," which PCMag defines as all forms of communication that came before digital technology, including "radio and TV and printed ...
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The new update allows users to apply filters to downtown and Evanston campus maps, selecting options including all-gender restrooms, lactation rooms, libraries and bike racks. Photo by Elisa Huang. Northwestern community members will have a simplified time finding all-gender bathrooms and rooms for lactation, thanks to an update to the campus ...