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.
Tags: giving stuff away, requesting things, rosemary and rue, toby daye
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black13

August 18 2009, 07:05:14 UTC 7 years ago

1) If you're a comics buyer, you could sign them and leave them for trade at your LCS.

2) Bookcrossing.com http://www.bookcrossing.com/

3) Join book swap groups. Give them away to interesting parties in return for books you would like to read. Most swap groups are media swap groups, so you could get CDs, DVDs and other stuff as well as books.

seanan_mcguire

August 19 2009, 14:32:15 UTC 7 years ago

Swapping my ARCs for things I wanted would feel too much like selling them, which is explicitly forbidden. But thank you for the thought!