Articles of category "Book clubs"

Paperback book clubs are clubs which offer a haven for book-lovers of a wide range of literary material, be it historical romance, detective stories, tales of scientific discovery and research, sports and much more. Paperback book clubs may be actual physical entities or just pseudo-clubs that live in cyber space - offering book-lovers an opportunity to buy the books of their choice at a substantial discount. Paperback book clubs (like their cousin, the hardback book club) fill an important need and demonstrate that the book is far from an outdated object that will be replaced by DVD's and electronic children's games.

Belonging to a book club is very popular in many western countries, and especially in the United States, France and Germany. In other parts of the world, the concept of a book club is slow in coming and can really be linked to a countries literacy rate. Only now is this type of business or book distribution starting to develop in the East. In the opinion of American experts, the parcel-post mail system is one of the most widely used forms of direct sales when it comes to books. It appeared in the USA in the middle of the 1970's as a real need to provide the population of rural areas and regions with books.