New Book Exchange Site Saves You Money and Time

I love this concept of book exchange. Kudos to the woman founder who is providing an opportunity for people to read more in an easy, convenient and inexpensive way. I can only imagine that it will be as easy to use as Netflix is for DVD's. You check books out online after you traded in your books.

It only costs $5 to send a dozen books through their service. Even when you aren't using their service and want to send books to family and/or friends, make sure when you send any books via U.S. Post Office that you ask for the book mailing price which is at least half to a quarter of the regular price.

Here is the basic idea and some key features of the site - provided by the Founder Dianne Deneton.
Novel Action, Inc.
Changing the Way Book Lovers Share Books
www.NovelAction.com

Novelaction.com is a new online book exchange store with a centralized inventory of books. Rather than purchasing books, members select any books they desire from the store’s website and send in an equal number of their books in exchange. We have mysteries, romance, literature, thrillers, etc. It functions like a store so you select the books you want, add them to your cart, check out and you’re done. You send your books to us and after receive them, we ship yours the next day. You get a confirmation email from the post office with a tracking number. A 12 month membership with unlimited exchanges is only $25.

*Members get $4.80 flat rate shipping for up to 6 pounds of books (about 13-17 paperbacks), and there are no transaction fees or hidden costs, so there's an incentive to read more/get more books.

*There's a consistent set of quality guidelines so members get the book quality they expect.

*Every book is treated equally - members can exchange paperbacks for hard covers if they want. The books they get are theirs to keep, or they can exchange them at the site again.

*A portion of the proceeds from Novel Action goes to support Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic and The Girl Scouts.

*The site has a chat room, and also a "novel fun" page with book-themed puzzles for members.

Through November 30th, all new members get 3 book bucks which are good for any 3 books - members can use them anytime and don't need to send any of their books in exchange to use them - for those who can't wait to get started :-)