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Announc­ing FreeBookStimulusPlan.com

Wanda Jew­ell has a prob­lem. After serv­ing nearly 20 years as Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the South­ern Inde­pen­dent Book­sellers Alliance (SIBA) she is over­run with books. All kind of books; fin­ished copies and gal­leys, advance read­ing copies, advance reader edi­tions, paper­back and hard­bound, slip-covered and not, lim­ited edi­tions, signed and unsigned, per­son­al­ized and not. Books here, books there, books, books, everywhere…and each pub­lish­ing sea­son brings more. It was while she was con­tem­plat­ing the man­age­ment of her exten­sive per­sonal library, (with the tele­vi­sion news on in the back­ground) that Wanda had her “Aha!” moment: How to weed her col­lec­tion and sup­port her south­ern indie book­stores at the same time? In a flash of Obama-induced inspi­ra­tion, Wanda cre­ated her own Free Book Stim­u­lus Plan.

Books can be pur­chased any­where. So why shop at indie book­stores? Because buy­ing a book at your local indie book­store doesn’t just stim­u­late your read­ing, it stim­u­lates your local econ­omy. Shop­ping local is an invest­ment in your own neigh­bor­hood and good karma all around. And because you can get a free book!

Hop­ing to stim­u­late sales at indie book­stores, Wanda is dis­man­tling her per­sonal library and offer­ing it to shop­pers one free book at a time. Begin­ning April 2nd, read­ers who pur­chase a book at a SIBA-member indie store and send her a copy of the receipt will receive book from her col­lec­tion com­pletely free of charge. Visit FreeBookStimulusPlan.com for details and a list of par­tic­i­pat­ing book­stores. Print out the request form on the site and mail it in with a copy of your store receipt (the receipt must include the name of the store). That is all you have to do to get a free book from Wanda’s per­sonal library.

This offer is open only to con­sumers liv­ing in the con­tigu­ous United States. Com­pleted form with receipt must be mailed to Free Book, 3806 Yale Ave., Colum­bia, SC 29205 and only while sup­plies last. Con­sider this a chal­lenge to deplete Wanda’s library – she doubts it can be done!

Here is all that Wanda asks in return. Visit FreeBookStimulusPlan.com; Pass it on. Post to blog. Pay it for­ward. Print to press. Play the 411. Shout it out. Share the news. Spread the word. Soap­box it up. Tweet & Retweet. Face­book & Myspace. Get the word out. Free Book for Shop­ping South­ern Indie Book­stores! Increase your karmic footprint!