{"id":2056,"date":"2006-04-23T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-23T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2006\/04\/23\/read-share-receive\/"},"modified":"2006-04-23T17:54:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-23T17:54:00","slug":"read-share-receive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/read-share-receive\/","title":{"rendered":"Read&#8230; Share&#8230; Receive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americasbookshelf.com\/images\/logo.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.americasbookshelf.com\/images\/logo.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>That&#8217;s the concept behind a brand new company lauched yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/americasbookshelf.com\/\">America&#8217;s Book Shelf<\/a>.  ABS borrows a page from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflix.com\">Netflix<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blockbuster.com\">Blockbuster<\/a>, and provides a product service system model for readers.  What&#8217;s even cooler (and greener) is that most of the books come from members themselves: you list books you&#8217;re willing to share on the website, and when someone requests one of them, ABS sends you a postage-paid envelope to mail it off.  As a member, you can then request books from other members, keep it as long as you like, and check it in online when you&#8217;re done with it.  When someone else wants it, another postage-paid envelope comes your way.<\/p>\n<p>ABS co-owner (with his wife) Bill Denkler also told me a bit more about the company&#8217;s green business activities:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For  every 65 books shared through AmericasBookShelf.com we can help save  one tree from the pulp and paper mills. We purchase green tags from  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nativeenergy.com\/\">NativeEnergy.com<\/a> to help lessen our environmental foot print, and we  also purchase all recycled office supplies as we have available. We sent in  our membership application and dues with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coopamerica.org\/\">Co-opAmerica.org<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a celebration of their lauch, ABS is offering free one-year memberships to the first 10,000 people who sign up &#8212; you only pay for your book credits (1 credit = one book requested).  I think this is a really cool concept, and will have to get my membership in quickly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Categories: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/productservicesystem\" rel=\"tag\">productservicesystem<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/books\" rel=\"tag\">books<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/americasbookshelf\" rel=\"tag\">americasbookshelf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the concept behind a brand new company lauched yesterday, America&#8217;s Book Shelf. 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