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Book swapping or book exchange is the practice of a swap of books between one person and another. Practiced among book groups, friends and colleagues at work, it provides an inexpensive way for people to exchange books, find out about new books and obtain a new book to read without having to pay.
Both paperback and hardback books may be traded, as well as audiobooks. Within the PBS system the value of any bound book is one credit, and the value of an audio book is two credits. [3] Pickering patented several embodiments of the program with the US Patent Office involving the swapping process of books, CDs and DVDs.
The Time Reading Program (TRP) was a book sales club run by Time–Life, the publisher of Time magazine, from 1962 through 1966. Time was known for its magazines, and nonfiction book series' published under the Time-Life imprint, while the TRP books were reprints of an eclectic set of literature, both classic and contemporary, as well as nonfiction works and topics in history.
A very common example of series fiction is a book series. Series fiction spans a wide range of genres, and is particularly common in adventure, mystery, romance, fantasy, and science fiction. While commonly associated with children's and young adult literature, series fiction has also been a significant feature of mainstream and genre fiction ...
The series was created and published by Townsend Press [2] and was co-distributed by Scholastic. As part of an effort to promote reading in underfunded school districts, Townsend Press originally made the Bluford Series available to schools for a dollar each. [3] As of 2018, over 11 million Bluford Series novels were in print.
One City One Book (also One Book One City, [City] Reads, On the Same Page, and other variations) is a generic name for a community reading program that attempts to get everyone in a city to read and discuss the same book. The name of the program is often reversed to One Book One City or is customized to name the city where it occurs.
Jessie Thompson shares our guide to the year’s unmissable fiction. BOOKS: Spend your 2024 getting lost in very good novels – there are plenty to choose from. Jessie Thompson shares our guide ...
Edward Stratemeyer, creator of the Hardy Boys and founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate. Each volume is penned by a ghostwriter under the pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon. [22] In accordance with the customs of Stratemeyer Syndicate series production, ghostwriters for the Syndicate signed contracts that have sometimes been interpreted as requiring authors to sign away all rights to authorship or ...