Think of it as BitTorrent for books, or a free, dead-tree answer to Netflix. BookMooch is a community book exchange service where people send their unwanted books, real books, not electronic ones, to other BookMooch members. You can keep the books you receive, send them along to others, whatever you want. The books are free, but you have to pay for postage, and you have to be willing to give away some of your own books.
Unlike Lala (for CDs), PeerFlix (DVDs), and other services for exchanging unwanted media for wanted media, BookMooch does not charge for the transactions. The service itself is free. It IS a reputation system and there’s a maximum 5:1 ratio of books received to books sent out. The service just recently started and there are already some 1,500 registered members and 10,000 books in the community “library.”
[Via The Inquirer]