get your swap shoes on

[sleepfighter]

Hello readers, to one and all. This is your first warning that swaps-within-a-swap are coming, or to say that Candy, Drink and Book Yuletide Swaps are going to happen again, and we'd like to have the sign-ups for them pretty darn soon, or within the first half of October. Why this early? Because we gotta try and beat the holiday shopping and

Comments

[ladyoneill]

Sadly money is very tight for me this year so I wouldn't be able to ship outside the States. :(

[sleepfighter]

Ah, that's a bummer. Thanks for letting us know so we can start to get an idea of the kind of scope we're dealing with, and we're glad you're still with us anyway.

[ladyoneill]

Yeah, I've really enjoyed participating the last couple years and plan to again; just gotta be more careful with my money which sucks. Hopefully matching will still work for everyone. This is such a fun swap.

[themistoklis]

I'd love to participate in these swaps again! Last year was my first year. Unfortunately, there is no way I could consider paying those prices for international shipping from the US. :( I'd only be able to match internationally if someone wanted an ebook.

[carmarthen]

I'm outside the US and not only unlikely to be able to afford international shipping, but tbh I only want ebooks at the moment. I wonder if it would be practical to have an ebook subcategory for Bookswap (although you do start running into complex international drm issues, possibly).

[sleepfighter]

I am glad to report that ebooks have always been an option for book swap (and is even listed in the FAQ!), and we prioritize ebook senders to people who want to receive ebooks whenever possible, though as an option it has not always been very popular. I think we only ever got up to about 5% of senders preferring to send ebooks per bookswap, and only a few senders of ebooks last year.

tl;dr: We will be glad to match up people who want to send and receive ebooks.

[carmarthen]

Ah, it wasn't clear to me from the FAQ if it was definitely an option to do ebook only, or if you still had to be willing to send/receive paper books as well. Cool!

I will have to think about it! I can definitely see why paper books are more popular (and I was in that category myself once), but it's just not so practical for me this year.

[ext_232051]

Hello! I've seen this going round the last couple of years and have not participated, but would like to this year - and international shipping would be right out for me ;-; If I'm gonna spend that money I'd rather it go into the contents of the package rather than its delivery.

[kultiras]

I'm planning on participating in all three swaps again this year, and because I'm sending three packages, I probably can't afford to ship outside of the US. =/

[pesha]

I'm interested in the bookswap again this year since last year was WONDERFUL for me. I couldn't afford international shipping however since I learned the hard way how much it costs to send a book overseas when I had to ship a signed book to a winner in the Philippines for my book blog. @_@ It was impressive.

Having an e-book swap? Would be EPIC. I run a book blog and it goes over very well for my readers.

[storyfan]

I like the idea of an e-book swap.

[sleepfighter]

I am glad to report that ebooks have always been an option for book swap (and is even listed in the FAQ!), and we prioritize ebook senders to people who want to receive ebooks whenever possible, though as an option it has not always been very popular. I think we only ever got up to about 5% of senders preferring to send ebooks per bookswap, and only a few senders of ebooks last year.

tl;dr: We will be glad to match up people who want to send and receive ebooks.