{"id":1363,"date":"2008-03-28T11:21:17","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T16:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2008\/03\/28\/bookmooch-and-gift-economies\/"},"modified":"2008-03-28T11:21:17","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T16:21:17","slug":"bookmooch-and-gift-economies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2008\/03\/28\/bookmooch-and-gift-economies\/","title":{"rendered":"bookmooch and gift economies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookmooch.com\">Bookmooch<\/a> is a big supporter of the Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project and they give free points (used to trade books on their site) to Pages so we can request books from their users for people in Prison.\u00c2\u00a0 Recently, John Buckman, the Bookmooch founder blogged about a proposal for using Bookmooch as an alternative distribution mechanism for independent authors:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Books would be printed \u00e2\u20ac\u0153on demand\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as mooch requests come in, and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d pay the postage and printing costs. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m thinking about using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blurb.com\/\">blurb.com<\/a>, as they produce photo-book quality print-on-demand books, though the price is a bit steep at $21 a book (plus postage, comes to about $24 a book).<\/p>\n<p>Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153experiment in generosity\u00e2\u20ac\u009d part:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> if you enjoy the book, and can afford it, please tip the author (with paypal).<\/li>\n<li> you choose the amount to tip, with a suggestion of $10 (remember, it cost $24 to print and ship)<\/li>\n<li> you list the book on BookMooch and pass it on to someone else<\/li>\n<li> if you want to keep the book, we ask that you tip at least the cost of the printing for the book.<\/li>\n<li> if the book wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t that exciting to you, or you simply can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t afford to tip, no problem, but do pass the book onto someone else via BookMooch<\/li>\n<li> each subsequent moocher of the book is asked to tip the author<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The questions I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like answered with this experiment are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>can an author afford to self-publish and give away books, and make back the investment through volunteered tips?<\/li>\n<li>Can peer-to-peer book swapping get a lot more people to read and enjoy a book?<\/li>\n<li>Is there more economic value in the life-after-the-first-sale of a book<\/li>\n<li>Is this a way BookMooch could help authors?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bookmooch.com\/2008\/02\/29\/an-experiment-in-generosity\/\">Link<\/a> to blog post about this &#8220;experiment in generosity&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bookmooch is a big supporter of the Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project and they give free points (used to trade books on their site) to Pages so we can request books from their users for people in Prison.\u00c2\u00a0 Recently, John Buckman, the Bookmooch founder blogged about a proposal for using Bookmooch as an alternative distribution&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2008\/03\/28\/bookmooch-and-gift-economies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">bookmooch and gift economies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wnIz-lZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}