Watch out, Barnes & Noble
There's a new bookseller in town.
Though it's actually not in town. It's online.
And it's not really a seller, either, because all of the books and CDs and DVDs and video games available there are free.
Yes. Free.
Thanks to the brilliant minds behind SwapTree, bartering has reached an all new level.
Think of the site as a sort of Match.com for your books and CDs. Once you sign up (there's no fee), SwapTree's algorithms calculate what you can get for the items you want to get rid of. The site shops around to find your perfect trade, and once the match is made, all you have to do is stick your item in the mail and wait for your own new "purchase" to arrive.
Bottom Line: Free books? Yes, please.
4 comments:
I love this site! But I find it depressing that no one is interested in most of my things. Beyond Basic Yoga for Dummies, come on! Charlie's Angels on DVD, why not? Williams-Sonoma Stir-Fry cookbook published in 1994, what gives? Sad.
wow great idea and site
For now, Swaptree (http://www.swaptree.com) is just getting started so I can see the Charlie's Angels isn't getting snapped up or your Williams-Sonoma Stir Fry Book.
But that's because the site just launched. If you consider 100s of thousands or millions of users once the site becomes popular, you'll find a home for all your stuff, circa the economics of The Long Tail.
I've used Swaptree, and I think it's one of the most useful websites on the web today.
Heres a good video of showing how http://www.swaptree.com works. Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbCdhbXdsik
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