Trade Recipe Books?
 

Hi All,

This is a great way to start moving expensive recipe books through your
collections.

After 2 years of development (whew!) we just launched a book exchange
service called www.swapsimple.com which allows people to turn the books
they no longer have any use for, into books that they actually need. I
thought this may be of particular interest to people who have loads of
recipe books around the house that haven't been used in years.

We originally designed it for college textbooks, but it works equally
well for all books.

If you do have some spare books around that you have finished with or
outgrown, SwapSimple is a great way to turn them back into books you
can actually use. Here's basically how it works:

1. Post your unneeded books
2. Instantly receive "trade credits" equivalent to the cover price of
your posted books
3. Use those credits to get any books you like listed for exchange on
the site

Please come take a look, we need all the support we can get.

I also started a SwapSimple group on Google (
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...-Book-Exchange ) to get
everyone's feedback regarding how we can make the service even better.
Please leave a comment if you feel so inclined.
Elliot
www.swapsimple.com

Sounds VERY interesting and I would like to see the list of
cook books available (if you have any to date). As a site
refinement, I suggest that you put tabs on your website.
One for textbooks and another one for cookbooks.

Where do you keep your list of available books and how are
they listed? Are they cross referenced by author, type of
cusine and ingredients?

This is a good thing!
QUOTE: If another user ever requests a book you listed in
the databse, all you need to do is print out a
prepaid/preaddressed mailing label from our website and send
the book off in the mail.

How do people pay for this? Are credit cards accepted?

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On 9 Jan 2005 15:55:50 -0800, "Elliot101"
> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> This is a great way to start moving expensive recipe books through your
> collections.
>
> After 2 years of development (whew!) we just launched a book exchange
> service called www.swapsimple.com which allows people to turn the books
> they no longer have any use for, into books that they actually need. I
> thought this may be of particular interest to people who have loads of
> recipe books around the house that haven't been used in years.
>
> We originally designed it for college textbooks, but it works equally
> well for all books.
>
> If you do have some spare books around that you have finished with or
> outgrown, SwapSimple is a great way to turn them back into books you
> can actually use. Here's basically how it works:
>
> 1. Post your unneeded books
> 2. Instantly receive "trade credits" equivalent to the cover price of
> your posted books
> 3. Use those credits to get any books you like listed for exchange on
> the site
>
> Please come take a look, we need all the support we can get.
>
> I also started a SwapSimple group on Google (
> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...-Book-Exchange ) to get
> everyone's feedback regarding how we can make the service even better.
> Please leave a comment if you feel so inclined.
> Elliot
> www.swapsimple.com


sf

Sounds VERY interesting and I would like to see the list of
cook books available (if you have any to date). As a site
refinement, I suggest that you put tabs on your website.
One for textbooks and another one for cookbooks.

Where do you keep your list of available books and how are
they listed? Are they cross referenced by author, type of
cusine and ingredients?

This is a good thing!
QUOTE: If another user ever requests a book you listed in
the databse, all you need to do is print out a
prepaid/preaddressed mailing label from our website and send
the book off in the mail.

How do people pay for this? Are credit cards accepted?

```````````````````````````````````

On 9 Jan 2005 15:55:50 -0800, "Elliot101"
> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> This is a great way to start moving expensive recipe books through your
> collections.
>
> After 2 years of development (whew!) we just launched a book exchange
> service called www.swapsimple.com which allows people to turn the books
> they no longer have any use for, into books that they actually need. I
> thought this may be of particular interest to people who have loads of
> recipe books around the house that haven't been used in years.
>
> We originally designed it for college textbooks, but it works equally
> well for all books.
>
> If you do have some spare books around that you have finished with or
> outgrown, SwapSimple is a great way to turn them back into books you
> can actually use. Here's basically how it works:
>
> 1. Post your unneeded books
> 2. Instantly receive "trade credits" equivalent to the cover price of
> your posted books
> 3. Use those credits to get any books you like listed for exchange on
> the site
>
> Please come take a look, we need all the support we can get.
>
> I also started a SwapSimple group on Google (
> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...-Book-Exchange ) to get
> everyone's feedback regarding how we can make the service even better.
> Please leave a comment if you feel so inclined.
> Elliot
> www.swapsimple.com


sf

Hey, thank's for your feedback!

As far as adding tabs goes, we will be adding subject search functions
soon. For right now you have to login and browse through all the
available items by the first letter of the title. You can search by
title, author, and keyword but there are only about 300 books on the
site now, so your best is to browse. I don't think that currently
there are any cookbooks, but you can change that by posting some - :-)
We need all the support we can get to get the service going strong.

Regarding the postage - the reciever of the book pays for postage
up-front with their credit card, and the sender can then print out the
label from their computer. Teh reviver does not get charged until the
sender actually prints out the label though.
Talk soon,

Elliot
President, SwapSimple Inc.
www.swapsimple.com

Hey, thank's for your feedback!

As far as adding tabs goes, we will be adding subject search functions
soon. For right now you have to login and browse through all the
available items by the first letter of the title. You can search by
title, author, and keyword but there are only about 300 books on the
site now, so your best is to browse. I don't think that currently
there are any cookbooks, but you can change that by posting some - :-)
We need all the support we can get to get the service going strong.

Regarding the postage - the reciever of the book pays for postage
up-front with their credit card, and the sender can then print out the
label from their computer. Teh reviver does not get charged until the
sender actually prints out the label though.
Talk soon,

Elliot
President, SwapSimple Inc.
www.swapsimple.com