Go on a blind date with a book

We are getting to know that printed books are have a good jerk, while e-books or digital books are losing their steam a bit after that great irruption that they had many years ago. Also, bookstores have known come up with new ways to attract the public to become centers of culture, as we have already talked about at some point or another.

Bookstores in many parts of the world want you now to go directly to have a blind date with a book. Another of those ideas that try to transform how we see these commercial establishments where it is increasingly easier to find one of our favorite writers or meet people who have a great predilection for one of the genres that we most often read.

The idea behind this program is to get the book be totally anonymous so that you don't know the title or the author's name. Best of all, it will be sold at a good discount, so you will not pay the full price.

A bookstore in Homer, Alaska, has launched this type of blind date with books and explained that they use the books that are sent for free to the bookstore as copies that are not intended for sale, to sell them for $ 3 each and a series of points for every dollar spent.

Book Culture is a bookstore that is located in Upper Westside in New York and has a great variety of books that they have selected and wrapped as surprise books based on others that you have already read and liked. Other interesting initiatives come from a bookstore in Toronto that works in a way that they have called as Biblio-Mat; it is a machine that sells old books at random for 2 dollars each.

An interesting initiative to encourage the buy cheaper books and that can contain quite a surprise, apart from the fact that it may be time to read it, such as when one opens a certain page of one and finds a message that is good for that vital moment.