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What is BookMooch?BookMooch is a web site where anyone can give away books no longer wanted. In return, you get to ask other people for books you do want. More or less, it works out that for every book given away; you get a book for free. BookMooch was created because I wanted to use this service, and no-one else had done it yet in a way I liked.
I looked around the Internet, and the BookMooch idea seemed dead obvious. I love books. I love everything about them. What better way to share the wonderful experience of owning and reading books than by starting an online exchange? I've got stacks of books on my shelves that have been read once, but will never read again. The local used bookstore would be only interested in a few of them and will pay next to nothing for even those they do want. Plus, it's a hassle. The books could be thrown away, but I just can't bring myself to do that. There's got to be a better use for these perfectly good books. Why not give books away to people who want them? Ok, there's the postage cost of sending books to others. But it seemed fair that if you pay for the postage to send a book to someone, you should not have to pay for postage to receive a book, and that's how BookMooch works. BookMooch is like a giant bookstore, of all the bookshelves in people's homes. By aggregating everyone's home book collection, we should have the best selection of used books on the planet.
Mientras que la idea se parece obvia en la retrospección, la edición es el modelo del negocio. Otros intercambios, por ejemplo La La (un sitio del intercambio del CD) o PeerFlix (un intercambio de DVD) hacer el dinero cargándote para cada transacción, y consiguiendo implicado con el correo de cosas entre la gente. Esto no trabaja bien para los libros. Deseé crear un servicio que era un intercambio directo sin confusión (o) intermediarios costosos. Y como ventaja adicional, el servicio construiría simultáneamente a comunidad de los amantes del libro.
¿Y por qué debo cuidar? Considerar esto: tienes libros en el país que nunca leas otra vez. ¿Por qué no negociar ésos para los libros unos que pagarías de otra manera? Muchos libros salen de la impresión y son duros de encontrar. Con BookMooch-- y esto es importante-- todavía están disponibles y cuál es más, libre. Los libros son emocionales, justo como música. Son un producto cultural e importan a nosotros. Se siente bien recomendar un libro alguien, para pasarlo encendido, así que gozarán de él. En el lado práctico, la oportunidad de ahorrar el dinero y de liberar para arriba el espacio del estante es una motivación para utilizar BookMooch. Además, no todo tiene que estar sobre la fabricación de beneficio. Es a veces diversión apenas para dar un libro alguien.
Los libros usados no tienen casi ningún valor de efectivo. Esto es principalmente debido a la carencia de un mercado eficiente para los libros usados. El mejor mercado que conozco de es los libros de ABE, que las piscinas juntos utilizaron almacenes del libro. Sin embargo, todavía no tienen porciones de libros que deseo, simplemente porque qué utilizó los almacenes del libro eligen almacenar son una selección pequeña de todos los libros se han impreso que, y los costes son a veces desrazonables: un libro en rústica reciente, pero agotado de la ciencia ficción que deseé era $30 en ABE.
First of all, I read a lot of the same books as my friends. I though it would be fun to have an automated way to see what they're giving away, what I might like, and swap books with them. Secondly, my house is full of books and bookshelves. Extra space is needed, but I can't bring myself to throw books away. Thirdly, a lot of my friends are authors with books that are out of print and almost impossible to obtain. The idea for BookMooch started when I was looking for a book that was only 6 years old, yet was so out of print even ABE Books didn't have it. To me, that's a real tragedy, and someone ought to figure out a way to get books from vanishing. Fourth, as I live half the year in England, I'm often reading about books that have been out for some time in the USA but aren't yet available in the UK. For instance, the snarky "ICon" biography about Steve Jobs still wasn't available in the UK six months it was featured in Wired Magazine. Lastly, I grew up in Paris and went to graduate school there, and like to read books in French. These are almost impossible to get in the US unless I order from Amazon.fr or FNAC. BookMooch should be place that expats and foreign language readers can get books in other languages.
Estoy esperando que utilizas el wishlist de BookMooch en vez de comprar derecho de Amazon, porque es una manera conseguir los libros que deseas para libre, especialmente si no tienes prisa. Si chascas “conseguir el acoplamiento de Amazon” en tu wishlist en vez de esperar una copia libre, yo hacen a comisión pequeña de Amazon (el cerca de 5%).
¡Si ella poder, grande! Cuando viví en Oakland, California llevé una pila de nuevos títulos mi biblioteca pública y ella me dijo que ella no tuviera ninguna facilidad para aceptar los libros. Fue sugerido que los libros estén dejados en una pila fuera de la puerta delantera, porque gente para parecer directo y toma si desean. El día siguiente, todos los libros habían sido lanzados lejos por el servicio de la limpieza. La gente da los libros usados a los hospitales, en donde una vez al año la venden en estos acontecimientos gigantescos del todo-libro-para--mismo-bajo-precio. Levantar el dinero para un hospital es una buena cosa. Pero, en un acontecimiento me dijeron que destruyen toda que no se vende, porque los costes de almacenamiento son demasiado altos, y que era la mayoría extensa de los libros. Qué basura.
Initially, I thought that people should be able to choose how expensive books would be. In other words, a cheap sci-fi paperback book might be one point, but a dictionary might cost 3 points. However, that makes exchanging much more complicated, and if your goal is making money you should sell your books on eBay. A book you don't want is not worth much, you'd like to get rid of it. So, by making every book you don't want be exactly one point, then it's an equal exchange.
Yes, again another exception: if you are asked to send a book to another country, that's extra effort for the customs form and more cost for postage. Again, though, the idea is to reward people for the effort of sending books.
There are lots of ways to "game" the BookMooch system if you're not an honest person. However, I'm hoping two factors keep the amount of cheating down. First, these are only books, and they don't have a lot of cash value, so it may just not be worth the effort. Second, there's a huge amount of transparency at BookMooch, and if you do things that look like cheating, other people can see it. For example, when you request a book, the book owner has the option of rejecting the request, which they very well may do if it looks like the requestor isn't an honest person.
Basically, its fun to know what other book enthusiasts collect and read. I read a lot of the same books my friend do, so a friend's mechanism at BookMooch is a natural way for me to discover books I may want to read. And of course, friends-of-friends, what are they reading? BookMooch is all about interaction between book lovers and my hope is that it will become a flourishing online community.
Many of the authors I've spoken to are happy to see their books circulating more widely. They became authors to have their works read, and the worst thing that can happen to an author is for their books to go out of print and vanish. It's just plain wrong!
BookMooch se basa en Berkeley, California, donde vive mi esposa enero y yo.
Yes, points earned can be given away to a charity. For example, a sick child in a children's hospital can order books for free from their bed, to be delivered right to the hospital. Also, libraries have very limited book buying budgets, and with BookMooch they can order books for free that they normally would pay for. A general charitable fund has also been set up for worthy causes.
Including other types of media, like movies or music is a possibility for future expansion, but for now the focus is on physical books. One day, you might see a CD-mooch and a Video-mooch!
Por 11 años comencé y dirigí Lyris, un boletín de noticias del email (servidor de lista) y la compañía contra-Spam, que vendí en 2005. También funciono Magnatune, una etiqueta de registro en línea que no sea malvada. Nací en Londres, fui criado en París, Francia, y pasado mis años de la High School secundaria en New Haven, CT en donde comencé el trabajo en la edad 14 en la universidad de Yale. Después de que la universidad en Maine (universidad de las contiendas) y los amos del Sorbonne (ambos en filosofía), yo viviera en Washington, la C.C. y trabajó en un pensamiento agradece (la academia para los estudios avanzados y estratégicos) y entonces en el canal del descubrimiento. Actualmente, divido mi tiempo para arriba entre Magnatune del funcionamiento/crecimiento/el convertirse BookMooch y, lectura, tocando el laúd del renacimiento (que aprende el espicanardo del da de la viola) y siendo un foodie en dos grandes ciudades el comer. También ayudo a mi esposa con todo el Web site que ella mantiene.
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