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I just received an email from Oprah.com (whoever put me on her mailing list, I’ll find you) titled “Books On a Budget.”
What a fantastic idea for an email! I spend way too much money on books!
Remember when DVDs emptied our wallets? Then Netflix came around and saved us millions?
A few years later, I realized that video games were truly the wallet diuretic- and along came GameFly to save the day.
Now, some genius CEO realized a huge gaping hole in the market. Where do we go for book rentals? There’s no Blockbuster or Netflix for books. What are us bookworms going to do?
Voila- Book Swim! For a mere $20-$40 a month you can rent books! Like it says, no due dates, no monthly fees… when you finish a book, just put it in the mailbox! What a revolutionary idea!
Oh. Wait a second…
There’s something across the street from where I’m typing this. Can’t… quite… make it out…
Oh. Right.
A fucking LIBRARY.
FAIL.
(FYI- if you need to own what you read, go here or here instead.)
Looks like someone took this classic failblog post and went business model with it.
To be fair, though… my local library sucks. It’s selection is 90% Dean Koontz novels and 10% homeless guys hitting on the teenagers who are there doing their homework. Perhaps this service could offer a more diverse selection?
Looks like someone took this classic failblog post and went business model with it.
To be fair, though… my local library sucks. It’s selection is 90% Dean Koontz novels and 10% homeless guys hitting on the teenagers who are there doing their homework. Perhaps this service could offer a more diverse selection?
[Full disclosure- Jamie has been a Book Swim employee since 1998.]
[Full disclosure- Jamie has been a Book Swim employee since 1998.]
Did I mention… no due dates?
Did I mention… no due dates?