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Jan 20, 2019 07:28AM
I’m just wondering if anybody belongs to any book box subscriptions? More importantly, any book box subscriptions that ships to Canada that won’t break the bank? I poked around on google and seen a few. Initially the price is good, then you see it’s in USD, and then shipping is added! So what starts out as a 9.99 ends up to be 20-30 or more $$$.
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If you look at my profile you can see that I was a happy member of Nocturnal Readers until they imploded with misdeeds. Now I’m a happy member of Goldsboro Book of the Month Club. Just one book, little if any swag, but always a signed first edition, usually in brodart covering and numbered. Far better value than swag.
Thank you. Took a look. With shipping it’s 63 dollars. That be for the rich Canadians lol
Char wrote: "https://nightworms.com/I don't know if they ship to Canada or not."
I was just about to recommend that one too! It's my favorite subscription :-)
Do you two belong to that one @Char and @Heather?
I do not, but I'm friends with many of their subscribers, all of whom seem super happy with the boxes so far. Nightworms is a relatively new service and I think Twitterstone is too. Both were created in the void that Nocturnal Reader's Box left when they disintegrated late last year.
Nightworms looks *amazing* but they don't ship internationally :( @SadieHartman New Zealand NEEDS a horror book box sub!Loot crate does a sub called Loot-Fright and they ship to NZ so they probably do Canada. It's $50 including shipping here which is a bit out of my price range at the moment, and it's not so much books as t-shirts and paraphernalia.
Yeah, I can't really afford to buy a box where things are just automatically shipped to me. As a reviewer, I get a lot of books free from the publishers, (mostly ebooks, but some paper books as well), so I can't justify buying a box that might consist of a bunch of books I already read and probably own.
Being a reviewer sounds like a good gig!I hear you about the money. Like I said, we get the conversion rate plus some shipping. I actually belong to a t-shirt/graphic novel one for the last couple of months. It's about 24 bucks Canadian.
I took a look at night worms also, no shipping to Canada with those guy!
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I have no idea how book box descriptions even work. Anyone care to fill me in? I feel like I'm missing out on something both as a reader and author lol.
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they are a subscription box. loot fright is every other month so there's all kinds of time schedules for them. most of the time you don't know what your getting. kinda like a grab bag.
Latasha wrote: "Justin wrote: "I have no idea how book box descriptions even work. Anyone care to fill me in? I feel like I'm missing out on something both as a reader and author lol."they are a subscription box..."
Ooh that sounds fun!
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they are a ..."
they really are.
I got two subs. I got a bark box for my dogs. I also am trying loot dirty business...Aka 1 T-shirt 1 pair of underwear and 1 pair of sucks. Transformers theme. I tried another one that I just cancelled that came with a T-shirt and two books aka graphic novels and I still haven’t gotten my January box so I quit. If the shirt knocks my socks off I’ll go back.
Latasha wrote: "Justin wrote: "Latasha wrote: "Justin wrote: "I have no idea how book box descriptions even work. Anyone care to fill me in? I feel like I'm missing out on something both as a reader and author lol..."I'll have to look into them :)
Whew, glad you’re not going to look into my socks and underwear
