All across the nation, many Friends of the Library organizations hold book sales that feature cheap books that were either donated or removed from circulation. Typically these sales sell books, CDs, magazines, and DvD's for rock bottom prices. A typical sale will sell most of their items for under 3 dollars.
Being charity organizations, these Friends of the Library organizations often have limited resources to advertise and promote their sales. As such, many people are never made aware of the excellent deals they are missing within their own communities. That's where booksalemanager.com comes in. We are attempting to bridge the gap between Organizations looking to more effectively advertise their sale, and people looking to find more places to get good deals on books and media.
Friends of the Library organizations and other non-profit groups can freely advertise their sale on our site. People looking to find sales can use our powerful search tools to find these sales. They can search by state, zip code, sale size, and date ranged. Furthermore, people can create an account and save sales to their calendar to help them better track the sales they want to go to.
Our site is in a late beta stage, so our database of sales is expected to grow dramatically over the next few months. We are also looking to add additional features such as premium sales and better email notifications people can sign up for. All for Free.
I believe book sales are a great way to find bargain books and media while at the same time supporting the local libraries we all know and love. It's a total win-win.
You can find us at www.booksalemanager.com or for our twitter feed of website upgrades we are located at http://twitter.com/booksalemanager
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I was on the Board of our local Friends for years and then, most recently on our Board of Trustees. I left because the work load was becoming close to a part time job - and I am working a 'real' job too. 'Friends' are so vitally important to libraries! I live on a rural island and yet we are blessed to have one of the best libraries I have had the pleasure of being in .. other than the NYC library :.)
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Clifford Roberts
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Thanks for becoming my friend. I look forward to reading all your blog entries and reading the books you recommend.
I was on the Board of our local Friends for years and then, most recently on our Board of Trustees. I left because the work load was becoming close to a part time job - and I am working a 'real' job too. 'Friends' are so vitally important to libraries! I live on a rural island and yet we are blessed to have one of the best libraries I have had the pleasure of being in .. other than the NYC library :.)
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Lori
www.loricalabrese.com
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