Read about how national British newspaper, The Guardian, launched and ran its six-week autumn books season by setting 15,000 titles free into the wild one weekend last September.
From fiction to design, and children's books to science, the Guardian gathered thousands of books from publishers and authors, distributing them around the country for free. Books were left in public places where readers were liable to chance upon them, from stations and coffee shops to galleries and museums.
The giveaway was part of the Guardian and Observer Book Swap, for which readers and writers were also asked to give their own favourite reads away. After inserting a bookplate sticker provided by the paper into the front of the book, and writing a message for the finder, the readers were to leave the book somewhere to be picked up by a new owner.
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