Box-O-Books™ -> What is Box-O-Books™?

We are beginning the process of introducing a number of new features designed for all members to select from new "paid for" services. The funds generated will help us to maintain and run the club. Many of you have asked how you can help with financial support of PaperBackSwap.com – well this is your chance. By enrolling in Box-O-Books™ ($8.00 per year), you can support the club and help pay the costs of maintaining the site while at the same time trade books using no credits and reduce your postage costs. You actually SAVE money by using this new service. How cool is that!? Now you can ship books for LESS MONEY, and NO CREDITS are needed. This is a new and exclusive feature that is available only to participating members here at PaperBackSwap.com!

Here's how it works:

If you become a participating member of Box-O-Books™, you'll be able to access a list of other participants and browse their bookshelves. Once you find a participant that you'd like to swap a box with, you begin the process by selecting as many books as you are willing to trade with that member. Let's say s/he has 55 books posted, and you select 10 of them.

The system then sends an email invitation to the other member asking that member if s/he would like to trade up to 50 books with you. Next, s/he goes to your bookshelf and views all of your books. Then you both agree on the number of books that you want to trade (10 for 10, or any other combination).

For example, let's suppose that the other member only wants to trade for 7 of your books (and not 10). So you both agree on which books to exchange based on the priority of the books you listed. You each box up your books and take them to the Post Office. You mail your 7 books to him (or her), and s/he mails his/her 7 books to you! How cool is that? No credits needed, and you save on postage as well!

Of course, if you still want the remaining 3 books, you can use your regular book credits to order them from this member through the regular PaperBackSwap process by visiting his/her bookshelf and, using your credits, ordering these 3 directly.

Remember, due to USPS regulations, when shipping your Box-O-Books™ you must go to the Post Office. We strongly suggest that each member use Delivery Confirmation at the Post Office so that you both "protect" your shipments to each other.

As you can see from the attached Media Mail Schedule, you can save a lot of money on postage by sending multiple books to one location as a Box-O-Books™ instead of sending them one at a time. Check out the savings you can enjoy when mailing more than one book to another member!

Postage Cost Comparison

* Actual Postage my vary depending on the size and weight of the books included in the box.

Media Mail Rates

As you can see, if you were to mail 10 books, this would only cost you about 38 cents per book! How great is that?!? And of course you can trade as many Box-O-Books™ as you want – and the savings just keep increasing!

We hope that you enroll in this new service which will help to maintain and pay for our great site. At $8.00 per year, you can save money on your very first exchange using Box-O-Books™. We hope you enjoy this great feature found only here at PaperBackSwap.com.

All the best and happy reading,

The PaperBackSwap Team