8/6/2002 8:13:08 PM
Dear friends/sdara,
I am planning to launch a book project. The risk of failure is quite high but I am willing to take the risk. This idea comes from a similar project launched by the people at : http://www.bookcrossing.org
It is about promoting the culture of reading. Considering our Malaysian habit, the chance of its success is low. The original idea was to get a few books and leave them at public places for people to take and read and
THEN they pass on to their friends and so on. My modified model of the project is to get a few books and give out to a few friends to read. After the readers read the books, they will check into my website:
http://www.communityzero.com/bookcafe ( an online forum and bulletin board) and post their comments there. After that the readers will identify the next potential readers to read the book and repeat the same
process again. The project can fail in many ways: the potential readers don't read the books or they don...