Distributing Self-Pub books via Little Free Libraries and the like?

[aldersprig]

I was thinking the other day (while passing the Friends of the Library book sale building), that many people advise getting your book out there by donating it to libraries, which is problematic - library donations often just end up at book sales like that (and then sometimes in dumpsters from there); libraries have limited space and the books they keep on their shelves are curated, and so on. There is a five-post guest article on this in my archives - http://aldersprig.dreamwidth.org/tag/info:+library and scroll down a couple posts - by eseme.

But!

Little Free Libraries have none of that, including a budget. If you had a map of their libraries in your area and a stack of your books, you could seed them throughout the area. Road trip and slide 'em in on the way. Like very map-based suburban/urban geocaching? "Oh, we're going to be in boston, let's check out their little free libraries while we're there."

...I need a book to drop off at the local LFL.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

!!!

[aldersprig]

???

[alexseanchai]

That had never occurred to me before.

[aldersprig]

Me, neither, until I was looking at the dumpster.... <.

[anke]

There's one where I do most of my shopping, an one I pass on my way from work to the train stop when I catch a train to the gym, so if you want to invest into planting books in Cologne, you have a minion for that. (I briefly saw an English language Pratchett book in one that obviously someone liked enough to keep, but I'm note sure how useful it would actually be.)

[xenologer]

Holy crap! There's one a mile from my house!

[aldersprig]

Win!