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ANCHOR LEAD
DO YOU HAVE HOARDS OF BOOKS COLLECTING DUST ON YOUR SHELVES? LOOKING FOR YOUR
NEXT GOOD READ?
YOU'RE NOT ALONE!
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WORLDWIDE HAVE FOUND A USEFUL SOLUTION.
______________ GIVES US THE HEADS UP ABOUT AN EXPLODING MOVEMENT THAT'S A
REAL PAGE TURNER!
NATSOT Length:
04
"It's a big community of, for the most part, avid readers."
NATSOT Length:
02
"It's got a life of its own now."
TRACK ONE Length:
06
IT...IS BOOKCROSSING...THE ACT OF SHARING AND TRACKING BOOKS WITH OTHER READERS
FROM AROUND THE WORLD.
SOT
KEY @: 14 Ron Hornbaker, Founder, Bookcrossing.com
"We just thought it would be neat to have a catch and release program
for books."
TRACK TWO Length:
15
RON HORNBAKER CREATED BOOKCROSSING- DOT-COM.
HERE'S HOW IT WORKS:
CHOOSE A BOOK YOU'RE DONE WITH.
GO TO THE WEBSITE, GET AN I-D NUMBER TO PUT INSIDE....AND THEN POST A NOTE
TELLING PEOPLE WHERE YOU'RE LEAVING IT.
... THEN WAIT TO SEE WHO FINDS IT!
SOT
KEY @: 35 Ron Hornbaker, Founder, Bookcrossing.com
"You get an email letting you know that somebody has found your book
and what they thought of it."
TRACK THREE Length:
07
BOOKCROSSING NOW BOASTS 380-THOUSAND MEMBERS...
AND IS GROWING AT A RATE OF 300 NEW MEMBERS EACH DAY!
NATSOT
Length: 04
"Most of our members are in the US, but it's taken off globally."
TRACK FOUR Length:
07
INCLUDING COUNTRIES LIKE GERMANY...GREECE ...FRANCE AND ENGLAND.
SANDRA COLLINS HAS BEEN BOOKCROSSING FOR THREE YEARS.
SOT
KEY @: 58 Sandra Collins, Bookcrosser
"I've released about 15-hundred books in the wild. It's kind of like
a treasure hunt."
TRACK FIVE Length:
03
SOME OF HER FAVORITE PLACES TO RELEASE BOOKS?
NATSOT Length:
05
"Park benches, free paper boxes, bathrooms in restaurants..."
NATSOT Length:
01
"It takes a little bit of stealth."
TRACK SIX Length:
07
SINCE ENTRIES ON THE WEBSITE ARE THE ONLY TELLTALE SIGN SOMEONE HAS CAUGHT
YOUR BOOK...IT'S HARD TO TRACK JUST HOW MANY BOOKS ARE FOUND.
SOT
Length: 02(No key: Sot with: Sandra Collins, Bookcrosser)
"A lot of the books, I have no idea what happened to them."
TRACK SEVEN Length:
03
BUT THAT DOESN'T MATTER TO SANDRA...
SHE SIMPLY ENJOYS THE ADVENTURE.
NATSOT
Length: 02
"It's certainly a fun thing to do."
SOT
KEY @: 1:30 Ron Hornbaker, Founder, Bookcrossing.com
"Part of bookcrossing is the feeling you're spreading a message to somebody
else."
ANCHOR TAG
BY THE WAY...
IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN BECOMING A BOOKCROSSER...ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS LOG
ON TO THE SITE.
MEMBERSHIP IS FREE...
SOURCE LIST
Ron Hornbaker
Bookcrossing.com
415 Winnebago Drive
Lake Winnebago, MO 64034
816-537-9095
www.bookcrossing.com
Ron is the founder of Bookcrossing.com, a web site devoted entirely to tracking
and sharing books.
He is also the president and CTO of Humankind Systems, the software company
that subsidized Bookcrossing's pre-revenue period.
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