Isn't this how Napster started?

Bookcrossing hits England.



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Ninja Author Hears of Someone Reading Her Book

One of our regular readers and contributors, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, recently discovered that her awesome new book of short stories (Way Up) was a part of this Bookscrossings program.



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A true web phenom

Bookcrossing profiled at CSM.

BookCrossing is one of those creations that could only exist because of the Web. Not only is there the unique encounter between complete strangers as they compare something as personal as their opinions about someone's favorite book, but there's also the fascinating - albeit occasionally depressing - act of tracking the movements of books that are better travelled than we are.

I have my own, semi-involuntary, version of Bookcrossing. It involves friends who never return my books.



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People who don't return your books you still refer to as "friends?" Mine are known as "persons on a list of contract hits."

I take a long term approach to friendship. I plan to outlive them and buy my books back in their contents sales...

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Edited by author 04-20-2005 10:24 AM
Bookdroppings

Watch out -- I think you just stepped in some. Uh, gross. Lisa Richardson wipes her feet of Bookcrossing.com.

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Ah. On a somewhat related note, GPS technology has a starring role at my multimedia launch this Thursday and Friday.

Bookcrossing, guvnah

Bookcrossing gets some London press.


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Edited by author 09-20-2005 10:38 AM
Bookcrossing gets Euro-press

The biggest bookclub in the world. Too bad writers don't get royalties for each time their books are read.

A book critic claimed to have found an advance copy of the hugely anticipated new novel by best selling writer Michel Houellebecq on a park bench.

In his review, Angelo Rinaldi, literary editor of Le Figaro newspaper, attributed his find to "le bookcrossing." But in a telephone interview he conceded the story was a humorous way to disguise a leak of the book, "La possibilite d'une ile" ("Island"), which he panned.

"But I think it's a wonderful idea to share books," said Rinaldi, a member of the prestigious Academie Francaise, the watchdog of the French language. "When I take a train, I often leave a book behind. But I've been doing that for ages. I didn't know I was a pioneer.".

Ahh, that charming French arrogance! You almost want to bottle it.

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