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From: "Ray Lewis" <>
Subject: Re: [MON] A Bookring
Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 10:51:29 +0800
References: <C261F7D8.63C32%thompson@ecentral.com><C261FBDC.63C36%thompson@ecentral.com><E1HkSVs-0008Ck-Mq@mk-relay-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com>
In-Reply-To: <E1HkSVs-0008Ck-Mq@mk-relay-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com>


G'day everyone

I haven't yet had a reply from my local booksellers, they are pretty good,
so I will hang fire until I do. Bookrings are a great idea, I spent 20 years
as a teacher/librarian here in Oz and used the principle in book promotions
regularly.

Perhaps the best idea would be for us to start a bookring for the book in
the various countries in which we all reside. There must be a fairly large
number of Monmouthshire listers who are resident in OZ, USA, Canada, etc.
That way the book gets a wide reading audience, the author will receive a
royalty for the various copies, and the people get to read the book a little
faster than using a single copy.

Ray Lewis
Hazelmere Western Australia where it's supposed to be raining but there's a
lot of blue in the sky seen from my study window.

Surname Interests in Monmouthshire: Jones; Lewis; Davies

http://www.LostCousins.com/?ref=LC894461



-----Original Message-----
From:
[mailto:] On Behalf Of Jean Smith
Sent: Sunday, 6 May 2007 6:14 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [MON] A Bookring

If you send a book, and marked it "Printed Papers", the cost of posting from
the UK to the US is cheaper, for instance, airmail "Printed Papers" for a
200 gram book is £2.62, but it must not include a letter.

-Jean.

At 16:16 05/05/2007, you wrote:
>On 5/5/07 8:59 AM, "Michael P. Thompson" <> wrote:
>
> > On 5/5/07 2:58 AM, "Ray Lewis" <> wrote:
> >
> >> I'd love to read the book but it would cost an arm and a leg to post
it.
> >> I'll see if I can get a copy locally.
> >
> > I'd have the same problem. It sounds like a fun idea, but in a world
> > wide forum such as this, the postage might be more than the cost of the
book.
>
>Maybe I spoke too soon. Amazon wants US$50 for a used copy. Amazon UK
>has one for £14.99, but with shipping to the US, that's not a whole lot
better.


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