Book blogging is different to lifestyle, fashion or beauty blogging

I recently came across a twitter thread with people discussing, whether book bloggers should charge for reviewing a book. It was mainly lifestyle, fashion and beauty bloggers saying that it’s a joke and book bloggers should get paid etc. They also became mean towards a fellow book blogger, saying she charges for sure, but just says she doesn’t, there were all kinds of other comments too.

My comment to that: These people are NOT book bloggers, so they have no idea how this whole thing works. They think they know everything better and only because it works one way in their blogging world, doesn’t mean it’s the same for every type of blogger.

Book bloggers usually receive a book by the publisher or author either in paperback or as an ebook. The book bloggers then read it and write an honest review. So we basically receive the book for free and write down our thoughts. That said, it’s not that we get all the books for free. I still buy a lot of books and review them as well.

We all do it for the love of books and not because of money. I would never come up with the idea of charging for my book reviews. Of course there are people out there, who do that for a living, like journalists for magazines. That’s very different. It would also be great, if we could make money like this, like lifestyle and beauty bloggers, but that’s not the case.

My blog is my hobby. I have a full time job and that's where I get paid. 

Most book bloggers review with honesty and integrity. I never just praise the book, because I like the author and want to stay friends with them. Amazon doesn’t allow paid for reviews and usually authors and publishers want us to post our reviews on Amazon.

Everyone is of course entitled to his/her own opinion, but if you have no idea about something you better be quiet. And it’s important to always respect other opinions and be polite. What I saw on twitter back then really shocked me, especially because it was bloggers I follow.

It’s seems that our way of blogging is a joke to them! They all really have to learn a lot!

24 Struggles All Book Bloggers Have

So with this post I don't want to moan and complain, but there are certain things bloggers just struggle with. All bloggers know what I'm talking about ;). Since I mainly blog about books I have focus on that part of blogging, one hashtag: #bookbloggerproblems

1. Not having enough space to put all of these books
2. Deciding what book to read next
3. Constantly requesting books on NetGalley
4. Having an overview of the books you own, yes Goodreads helps, but...
5. So many books, so little time...
6. Pub dates are like birthdays! And some pub dates are full of great books!
7. Constantly waiting for the postman to arrive and bring you books
8. Not liking Sundays, because there is no bookpost
9. Not liking a book and having to write a review about it
10. Wanting to read all the time, even during dinner with your family  
11. Being harder to please, books you would have loved once, are only ok now...
12. ...you always compare books! You know it's not good, but it happens automatically
13. Fear of missing out, so many great books around!
14. You don't want to leave this story! Book hangovers!!!!
15. You want her (main character) as a best friend
16. He'd make a great boyfriend, book boyfriends
17. Reading parts of series or books with cliff hangers and having to wait for the sequel/next part
18. Getting hyped up by a title and then hating it
19. Having a never ending TBR
20. Running out of adjectives to use when writing reviews
21. Thinking you're always repeating yourself when writing positive reviews
22. Damn you reading slump!!
23. You're reading a book in public and you have to cry
24. When you're writing a review of a book that got only good reviews so far, but you had some major issues with it

There are more of these struggles out there of course, but these are the ones I always struggle with ;) I really hope you enjoyed this post, let me know.