bookcrossing

This also promotes BookCrossing and creates more members.

There also exists a blog at Ballycumber.de concerning Bookcrossing.

All three methods are utilized with BookCrossing.

He is an avid fan of BookCrossing and apart from his work as an author, he is interested in music.

Sit back and see if anyone reports finding the book - and if they read it, what their opinion of it is - at BookCrossing.

In the same year, BookCrossing was featured as a part of a storyline in the Australian soap opera Neighbours.

In the same year, BookCrossing had good start in Croatia too, thanks to Velimir Schubert.

After all, Bookcrossing is a not-for-profit organisation, whilst Guardian Media Group is a profitable media concern.

This definition inspired the founders of BookCrossing, a worldwide community of booklovers, to name their mascot -a little yellow running book- Ballycumber.

The founder of BookCrossing, Ron Hornbaker, originally wondered if people would make this comparison when BookCrossing was first launched.

BookCrossing (also: BC, BCing or BXing) is defined as "the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise."

BookCrossers rebut the link to Napster, saying that whilst music filesharing involves duplicating audio files countless times, BookCrossing doesn't involve duplicating books (and also does not involve violating copyright, as books can be sold or given away freely without permission of the publisher being needed).

They claim that the website introduces readers to authors and genres that they have not read before, that the website encourages more people to take up or reclaim reading as a hobby, and that some members, having read a book that they have enjoyed, will buy extra copies to distribute through BookCrossing.

In 2003, BookCrossing was criticized by Jessica Adams, author of several "chick lit" novels, who claimed that books were being "devalued" by the website as BookCrossing could lead to lower sales of books and, therefore, the reduction in royalties being paid to authors.