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April 3rd, 2007

BookMooch.com, p-equivalent of P2P, now has 28K users sharing 270K books

Details here. Site here. Earlier TeleBlog item here. Spotted via LISNews. Also see DearAuthor item mentioning PaperBackSwap.com.
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Dear Author.Com | A Library of Books Via the Internet Says:
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:27 pm

[...] Teleread.org is reporting on the appearance of a not so new contender to the used book market. Authors are cringing at more companies encouraging readers to trade books through the mail while readers are rejoicing. [...]
Bryan Says:
April 4th, 2007 at 7:46 am

The tags for this are mispelled. It’s Bookmooch not Bookmouch
David Rothman Says:
April 4th, 2007 at 4:18 pm

Thanks for the catch. I love to mOOch proofing help David

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