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Trade Recipe Books?

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  1. 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/SwapSimple-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

  2. 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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    Elliot101 said:

    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/SwapSimple-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

  3. 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

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