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NEW WEBSITE AIMS TO INCREASE BOOK SALES
New site establishes four annual Buy a Friend a Book Weeks
Author and book reviewer Debra Hamel has created a new website, www.buyafriendabook.com that encourages visitors to surprise their friends with the gift of books during four annual "Buy a Friend a Book Weeks" -- the first weeks of every January, April, July, and October.For each Buy a Friend a Book Week Hamel will invite a guest reviewer to recommend three books to her site's visitors. The guest reviewer for the first Buy a Friend a Book Week (July 1st-7th) is Damian McNicholl, the author of A Son Called Gabriel (CDS Books, 2004). Hamel also includes her own brief reviews on the site, selecting her recommendations from among the books she's reviewed at www.book-blog.com, her book review web site.
Participants in Buy a Friend a Book Week are invited to publicize their involvement by posting images available at buyafriendabook.com on their own sites. Participants can also print out a description of Buy a Friend a Book Week to include in their gift books.
Hamel hopes the idea behind buyafriendabook.com will capture the public's imagination and help promote reading and increase book sales.