Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: stumped
  • Music: Moulin Rouge, "Elephant Love Medley."

Okay. Advise me.

I have a few more ARCs to give away, and I'm stumped. So how should I give them away? (Hint: saying "give them to me" will actually not endear you, unless you finish that sentence with "I do all the buying for a major bookstore" or something similar, and can present credentials.) Have you got a favorite review site? Have I missed a contest? Should I abandon them on BART cars? What?

Propose anything. I am open to the crazy.

EDIT: So it's said, the "abandon on BART cars" option was a joke. I won't do anything that involves releasing ARCs into the wild, outside the bounds of the standard social contract, with no idea where they went. Not okay.
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archangelbeth

August 17 2009, 19:02:28 UTC 7 years ago

I'd say keep one or two for fun and displaying at conventions.

For others... Hm. Got a high school around who'd accept a donation for their library? College library?

(I donated a couple of Ursula Vernon's kid books to my kid's library, and they were very happy to have them -- librarians apparently love books (who knew! O:D ) and never have enough funding to get as many books as they want.)

seanan_mcguire

August 18 2009, 03:32:04 UTC 7 years ago

ARCs aren't suitable for donation to libraries. They were never intended to be read more than a few times, and their binding wouldn't hold up to that sort of treatment.

I'm definitely considering some finished book donations.

archangelbeth

August 18 2009, 12:17:39 UTC 7 years ago

Ahhh. I hadn't realized ARCs were so fragile. (It makes sense, mind; I'd just been oblivious.)

I wonder if a given convention would consider making an ARC a mascot... Raffle it off to a new person to read each year, who has to bring (or ship) it back...