Book sales consultant
Practicing such jobs often takes place in a bookstore. Book sales consultants are a little bit different from the average sales consultant you find in clothes shops, for instance. Only people who love reading offer specific skills that make them most appropriate for the job. Usually people who read a lot since childhood have developed very rich and detailed outlook so when it comes to recommending an author, they can give with the best advice. Whether is classic novel, a new foreign author, they are capable of helping you choose the book that best appeal to your taste.
Blogging
Usually booklovers are people with remarkable writing skills. They are creative thinking and idea-rich. Therefore, they can make it very good bloggers. If you love reading, writing and web browsing, and at the moment you are not sure what is your career path, why not try to become a blogger. You may create and develop a personal blog, for starters. This can be quite a challenge but if you are talented and offer unique blog posts, you will definitely stand out. On the other hand, there are lot of full-time paid blogging jobs. You only need to conduct a simple research and find your niche.
Book Reviewer
This job is very similar to blogging. You can launch your own blog about books featuring news, reviews, and authors’ profiles. However, your reviews may be within one genre and still attract readers as long as they are engaging. You can write reviews on books your have already read but also you can share first impressions after reading first copies of books that are due to be released soon on the market.
Literary agent
Generally, this job will put you in-between the writer (author) and the publishing houses. Literary agents connect with writers and represent their work to publishers, take part in negotiations, assist with contract agreements and payments. The job of literary agent may look insignificant to some people; the truth is, very few publishing companies will agree to take a look on an infamous author’s work without agent recommendation. Literary agents are always on the run for the next best-selling book. They evaluate wide variety of books by reading them and if the book is worth they make sure it reaches the massive audience. Indeed, most agents are after a commercial success but what they do is valuable for the modern book market.
Librarian
Librarians help people find their next favorite, or even life-changing book. To be able to do that the right way librarians read a lot so they can nurture the necessary outlook on books of different genres. So, they read everything, whether it is romantic novels and summer reads, to classics and newest best-sellers.
Editor
Whether it is about magazine articles, online blog posts or books, the job of an editor requires a lot of reading. As an editor you must provide excellent language grammar, writing skills, rich vocabulary and much more, because the essence of your work is to improve texts, to make them engaging, reader-friendly, easy to follow and appropriate for the audience. There are different types of editing so professional editors can specialize in many fields, especially when they claim to be experts in more than one. For example, editing magazine articles is very far from than editing website content-focused articles.
Indeed, there is a huge variety of professions suitable for people who love to read. You only have to explore them and decide which is the one for you. Good luck!
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