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Bookworm in The Scotsman, 12.2.11

Posted on February 13, 2011 by

This was in The Scotsman’s book supplement at the weekend.  I’d post a link but can’t find it on their website…

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3 Responses to “Bookworm in The Scotsman, 12.2.11”

  1. Cat
    February 13th, 2011 @ 2:58 am

    Oh well done Vanessa – just a pity it does not get reprinted in The Times, Guardian, Independent etc!
    The library idea makes huge sense (and it could have included everyone then).
    I like Andrew’s idea too – as long as I am one of the novelists. :-)

  2. Fran
    April 29th, 2011 @ 6:49 am

    Hi, to be honest, I’m not clear what the benefits were supposed to be when we agreed to be a collection point. I don’t think we expected anything from it. We were fairly clueless about how things were to operate; the WBN website was unclear and we called but didn’t get any straight answers. Boxes started arriving as WBN got closer. These stacked up, so we had to find a place to hold them. We had no way of knowing how to contact those who had ordered them. People showed up every now and then to collect them – several boxes at a time; one person came one week after WBN. I am not sure whether participating in this scheme brought goodwill to the shop or not. I think as a collection point, we provided some form of free warehousing as the books travelled in transit between the publishers, the givers and their intended recipients – I suppose we provided a service to potential customers. I don’t think this initiative had any influence on sales – but then again, we never imagined it would.

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