Clear the Bookshelf and Fill It Up Again, All Online

The NY Times takes a look at BookMooch, a book-swapping Web site created a year and a half ago by John Buckman, a bibliophile who describes himself as a “wealthy ex-dot-com person”. He and Jan Hanford, now his wife, co-founded Lyris Technologies, an e-mail marketing software company, in 1994, and sold it two years ago for $29.5 million.

October 18, 2007 by Uncategorized 2

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2 Responses

  1. Chuck says:
    October 19, 2007 at 1:06 am

    relevancy
    While librarians spill buckets of ink and tears fretting about how relevant they are the New York Times runs yet another profile of a smug, amused, millionaire dot com lottery winner starting a quirky little company that does nothing for no one.

    I’m not sure who I want to smack first.

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  2. Anonymous Patron says:
    October 19, 2007 at 2:30 am

    Re:relevancy
    I use sites like BookMooch and I find them useful. I don’t like BookMooch because the ability to browse on their site is horrid. The ability to trade books I have read for books that I want to read is very useful.

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