For the last couple of years I’ve given away books through BookMooch. I grit my teeth a little when I have to pay for postage, but at least it gets the book off my shelf.

On the other hand, I sometimes ask for a book, and it’s a delight to pull the package from my letterbox without having paid a cent for it: no purchase cost, no postage cost — it’s just free.

BookMooch is a community for exchanging used books.

BookMooch lets you give away books you no longer need in exchange for books you really want.

• Give & receive: Every time you give someone a book, you earn a point and can get any book you want from anyone else at BookMooch. Once you’ve read a book, you can keep it forever or put it back into BookMooch for someone else, as you wish.
• No cost: there is no cost to join or use this web site: your only cost is mailing your books to others.
• Help charities: you can also give your points to charities we work with, such as children’s hospitals (so a sick kid can get a free book delivered to their bed), Library fund, African literacy, or to us to thank us for running this web site <grin>.
• World wide: You can request books from other countries, in other languages. …

[Via : BookMooch Overview.]

Could your organisation use thise service? How about giving away some of the books you produce (if you produce any)? Are there books you’d like to receive?

Do you have clients who could use thise service? As at September 2008 the statistics show Bookmooch has more than 500,000 books listed for giving.

How can you use BookMooch?

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