Welcome to the online home of The Great Big Book Swap. On Saturday 3rd March 2012, The Edinburgh Bookshop is organising a book swap evening for a few hundred readers with ticket proceeds going to a fund to buy books for various groups within our community who’d like to get more involved with reading and the world of books. It’s about our customers helping us to reach out to the wider community and because we’re not expecting publishers to give the books away or authors to forgo their royalties, it’s sustainable and good for the trade as a whole. We will be forgoing any profit on the books we give away however – if the ticket sales fund totals £1,000 then that’s what we’ll be spending on books at cost price. The benefit of doing this for us from a commercial point of view is that it will hopefully garner us some good publicity and widen our customer base but also because we’re part of a community and like many bookshops we want to engage as much as possible with that community.
The Edinburgh Bookshop is setting this up but we’d love other bookshops to adopt the model for this event so that we have as many book swaps as possible happening on March 3rd. Do go to the About page for more details. In the meantime, why not join our mailing list wherever you are so that we can let you know what’s happening and if you’re a bookshop or author who’d like to be involved do get in touch.
