NEW OWNERS for OLD BOOKS

There are lots of internet-based innovations to facilitate a flow of second hand books out there: book crossings, e-bay and trade-me, buying online and offline in the form of our beloved (and sadly increasingly rare) second-hand book shop…

Here is our model, which has been trialled in the past, and has been very worthwhile and effective indeed. This is the skinny on what ideally needs to be done, in terms of holding book swaps. Of course, variations will occur.


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BOOKBROWSE

Continuing the Compost list of some of the interesting and useful book blogs that it has seen and are out there in infospace.
Today it’s Bookbrowse. This one even contains its own magazine. Plenty of discussions are available, along with bookclubs.
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A LIST of BOOK BLOGS

On this page the Compost will list some interesting book blogs that it has seen and knows of. As a start, you can't go too wrong with Bookgeeks. More soon.






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GUARDIAN RELEASES BOOKS into the WILD

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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