[UA] Re: Leaving stuff in bookstores

[Sean Holland]

"Hammons, Jade" <jade.hammons at attws.com> wrote:
>How about I buy like 20 copies, fill a duffle bag and then the second printing can have such great cover blurbs as
>
>"Best book I was ever battered unconscious by" - Umberto Eco
>"A story that hit me with such force I was nearly driven comatose" - Tim Powers

Brilliant!  Just brilliant!


But as to way to disperse books to the general populace, there is always:

http://www.bookcrossing.com/

"What is BookCrossing, you ask? It's a global book club that crosses time and space. It's a reading group that knows no geographical boundaries. Do you like free books? How about free book clubs?. Well, the books our members leave in the wild are free... but it's the act of freeing books that points to the heart of BookCrossing. Book trading has never been more exciting, more serendipitous, than with BookCrossing. Our goal, simply, is to make the whole world a library. BookCrossing is a book exchange of infinite proportion, the first and only of its kind."

A bibliomancer's dream?  Cliomantic plot?  Sleeper scheme?  Or just a neat idea?


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