Want to Join Us?
The Bookshop Blog is always looking for new contributors.
If you are a bookstore owner, book collector, online book dealer, or somebody that either is considering opening a shop – online or physical – or just has a passion for books and enjoy writing about your experiences then this may be a good fit for you.
Our writers tend to fall into two groups (and we welcome both). Some are just crazy about books (either selling or collecting) and would love nothing more than a nice audience for their writing (about 15 000 unique book fans per month). Others are often small business owners looking for links from a highly trusted web presence (that means a high PageRank in Google speak). As I mentioned earlier, either group is welcome as long as the posts meet our guidelines.
We have tried a few methods of having new writers join us and have settled on one that works best for both The Bookshop Blog and the writers. Simply put there is a one month trial period then after that you are paid $7.00 per article published, with a possibility of moving to a higher payout a little further down the road. We would need a minimum of three articles submitted during the trial month then beginning the second month you can submit as much or as little as you like (there may be a maximum imposed, depending on that month’s budget). Payouts are made around the 10th of the following month.
If you could use a couple extra dollars and love to write about your book selling and/or book collecting experiences then please don’t be shy. Submissions are dead simple (as easy as sending an email) and we’ve never missed a payout!
A few more details
Benefits include:
- Your posts are sent to our over 900 subscribers
- Your posts are Tweeted to our over 2 500 followers
- Your posts will be seen by our over 15 000 unique monthly visitors
- Getting paid for your writing is nice
- Your in-post links (which can go back to your business) will be from a 4 year old, PR5 website (that has over 10 000 inbound links)
- You can write as frequently or infrequently as you like (with a min. of 1 a month just to keep things rollin’)
- Never any obligations, fees or surprises – drop out at any time.
Requirements
- Posts must be original works containing no plagiarism and not posted on any other websites/blogs
- Posts would need to be on one of the following topics: book selling (online or B & M), book collecting, running a bookshop, plans of becoming a bookshop owner, stories from an ex book store owner, bookshop profiles (please do include a profile of your own shop), book or bookshop marketing
- Posts should be a minimum of 500 words, there is no maximum
- Attaching images when sending in your posts is encouraged
- We would expect the grammar and overall quality to be on the higher side of the scale
A few misc. items
- If you have written for us in the past then ‘disappeared’ you are more than welcome to come back.
- The process for submission is simply sending the editor an email with the article, we take care of all the formating etc..
** New policy in regards to posting your articles both here and on your own website. You can use a post submitted to us on your own site if the following conditions are met. It is posted here first (please wait until you see it live on our site before publishing on yours). There is a link to this site at the Top of the article stating “This post was originally published at The Bookshop Blog” or a link to The Bookshop Blog is created in your Sidebar or Blogroll. (http://bookshopblog.com)
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