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Shvoong is an online platform which is offering users to write and make money from their content.This site is a bit different from others which are offering similar services to monetize  content online. As of now it only accepts text content to be submitted. This site mainly accepts summaries and reviews of about everything from books, movies to articles or literature on science, arts & humanities, business & economy, internet & technology, law & politics, social sciences, medicine & health, newspapers etc.

Beside the earning part from content, the site is very useful for people who are looking to learn about some topic or subject as it has millions of summaries and reviews about vast range of topics submitted by users from all around the world. Students can benefit a lot from this site by using the stock of vast content of reviews and summaries, which includes academic papers also, for their studies and research.Users have other options also to generate more income from shvoong other than submitting contents. They can translate other user’s work in other languages also if they are capable to do so and there is another option ‘affiliates’ where users can refer someone and earn commission from it. The site is community based having a forum for users where they can discuss about issues and various topics which is very helpful and useful.There is a very useful tool called ’summarizer’ which helps user to summarize any piece of work for them automatically. There is a blog also which addresses various issues and updates about shvoong which are helpful for users. Members who have blog can place their shvoong link on their blog which helps to promote their work and earn more.Soon they are coming with several other topics like travel, music reviews for users to be able to submit related content.

Shvoong makes payment through Paypal and the minimum payout is 10 US Dollars. It pays only 10% of total revenue generated by user’s content which seems a bit less. Their main source of revenue is through contextual advertisements which appear on user’s content pages.