Tuesday, November 09, 2004

Suzanne Beecher's DearReader.com: How you can sample books via email

this is an audio post - click to play From DearReader.com's "About Page": "I started my book clubs for the busiest people in the world, my employees, stay-at-home moms. The only books they had time to read were children's books, so I started including parts of books in the email that I sent them each morning.

"Soon they were thanking me for getting them back into reading. They were leaving their TV's off at night and discussing books with their husbands. One employee admitted she would sneak over to her computer late at night to see if I had sent the next installment early.

"Now I have over 3,000 libraries, businesses, county governments, public schools and websites offering our book clubs to their members. I work with over eighty book publishers. People as far away as Moscow and China are reading with us.

"Sign up for my free service and every day I'll email you part of a chapter from a book. The emails take about 5 minutes to read. After I've sent you two or three chapters from a book, I'll start a new book. Before you know it, you'll be in the reading groove.

"Encourage your friends to sign up too, by forwarding your daily read to them. It's a great way to stay in touch with your friends. Together we can change the world, one chapter-a-day."