The Book Bazaar is accepting members in Amsterdam!
Non-fiction self-help books for an adult? Books by Roald Dahl for a nine year old? Your job is to ask for what you want. At the Book Bazaar, our job is to find you the books of your dreams. Donate books and earn karma. Spend your karma to acquire books (or anything else you want at any of our other bazaars).
The Book Bazaar can function as a marketplace, or as a library – it is whatever you want it to be. When you receive your book bundle, you can choose to keep what you like, for as long as you like.
The Book Bazaar deals in bundles of books, so when we find you a match the pickup is worth your time and effort. The fewest books that you can receive is a bundle of five books. When you make a donation your books remain in your possession until we find you a match.
What happens when I donate to the bazaar?
Earning Karma at the Book Bazaar
Donate book bundles
Donate a bundle of books for a given age, language and type. The minimum bundle size is five books.
Books of all types for all ages
Donate fiction or non-fiction for for adults or children, in any language.
Optional tagging
When you fill the form describing your donation you can optionally tag your bundle with attributes like title, author or genre.
Automatic karma calculation
The Karma Bazaar automatically calculates the karma earned by your donation and credits it to your profile. The karma is immediately available to spend, even before we find a match for your donation.
How do I get books from the bazaar?
Spending Karma at the Book Bazaar
Ask for what you want
Tell us the type of books you want, for what age and in what language. Then sit back and let us do the heavy lifting. You can also optionally specify titles, author names or genre of books that you would like the bundle to contain.
Automatic matching
Based on your karma the bazaar will choose a bundle that is the best match for you. You don’t need to monitor donations or sellers and try to be the first one to pounce when what you want becomes available.
Location awareness
If there are more than one bundles that match your criteria, the bazaar will pick the location closest to you.
Automatic queueing
If there is no bundle currently available that meets your needs, your request remains in the queue. When a matching bundle shows up, you will be notified.
How to Join the Book Bazaar
Membership for Amsterdam is now open!
To participate you must be a member of the Karma Bazaar Amsterdam Facebook Group. When you spend your karma on a book bundle, and a match is found for you, the match is announced in the Facebook group.
How to earn karma
Fill in the Donations Form to describe the book bundle that you want to donate.
How to spend karma
Fill in the Requests Form describing the book bundle that you want to receive.