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Publisher plays hide and seek
Source: Times
Shoppers can discover a true bargain among the bookshelves today after 300 copies of a new novel have been hidden among the titles of unsuspecting bookshops across London.
The Idiocy of Idears by an unnamed author has been planted in the fiction, poetry, art, philosophy and travel sections of Waterstones, Borders, Foyles and Blackwells in Central London.
The book, made up of the jottings of a dyslexic schoolboy Gustav Claudius, is a "brilliant expose of an education system that has now all but disappeared", says publishers The Aquarium.
Steve Lowe, director of The Aquarium, who went out this morning and planted the hand stamped copies in stores across London, said: "It's almost the opposite of shoplifting."
"We don't think Waterstones will say that because it's been left in their shop therefore it belongs to them.
"I think the ones in the fiction and travel sections will be discovered first, but the ones in the poetry and philosophy sections will probably hang around a lot longer."
Copies have been planted in Waterstones and Hatchards, Piccadilly; Blackwells, Borders and Foyles, Charing Cross Road and Waterstones and Borders, Oxford Street.
Further copies are available from The Aquarium L-13, Farringdon Road and will soon be available in bookshops in Brighton, Newcastle, Leeds, Liverpool and Dublin.
Waterstones declined to comment.
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spotty leopard
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Ooh, the bookshops won't like that. Free books? Now there's a subversive idea. They do say you can't give away money in the street. People get all suspicious and think there's a catch. ( I'm suspicious on the frequent occasions a stranger emails me to offer me a few million just for the temporary use of my bank account...) Plumboz said when he gave his book, Close Enough for Government Work, to his local library, there had to be a committee meeting to decide whether to accept it. Leaving them behind on trains works, they say...
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visinker
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Quote: Leaving them behind on trains works, they say... Or you can join bookcrossing.com and track them after you've left them somewhere with a little sticker on to say they're free: bookcrossing.comThough I left two of my own books in Edinburgh Airport once and never heard from them again. 
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plumboz
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Quote: spotty leopard, Tuesday, 14 Aug 2007 15:22Ooh, the bookshops won't like that. Free books? Now there's a subversive idea. They do say you can't give away money in the street. People get all suspicious and think there's a catch. Plumboz said when he gave his book, Close Enough for Government Work, to his local library, there had to be a committee meeting to decide whether to accept it. Leaving them behind on trains works, they say... I put copies of "Close Enough" on the sculptures littering Main Street in my home town, in Union Square in San Francisco, in Terminal 4 of Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, and at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Also behind bags of King Arthur flour in Trader Joe's, a neat grocery store we have here, among other places. It was fun work, but can't say as it produced any buzz for the book. At least I know there are a few tables with uneven legs that no longer wobble because my book is there to make up the difference. Cheers everyone! Alan Sketches by Plumboz
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Publisher plays hide and seek
14 Aug 2007, 15:11
