Joy of Giving Week: Book give away guidelines

Why am i doing a Joy of Giv­ing Week (JoGW) on my website?

I am sure this ques­tion is nag­ging you to no end. Well the answer is sim­ple – I don’t want you to feel left out.

From Sep­tem­ber 27 to Octo­ber 3, 2009 many NGOs and com­pa­nies will be cel­e­brat­ing JoGW. Do you have an invite to the ball? Has any NGO given you passes to the free mega-dinner they are hav­ing? No? Thought as much. Well, here and now, i am invit­ing you to par­tic­i­pate in my JoGW and get your­self a free book. There are seven books, one for each day of the week. All you have to do is tell me each day why i should give you the book. It’s that simple.

Start­ing 27 Sep­tem­ber, each day i will have a JoGW post on my blog. Leave your answer in the com­ments to that post.

Here is the step by step guide:

1. Read the blog post of the day – there will be one for each day start­ing 27 September
2. Reply to the question(s) in the blog post, if any. Or fol­low the instruc­tions at the end of each post
3. Else, tell me why i should give you a book
4. If your com­ments don’t show up, don’t panic, they might be held up for moderation.
5. The com­ments to the post will close at mid­night each day
6. Win­ner of the pre­vi­ous day will be announced on the fol­low­ing day
7. Title of the book will be kept undis­closed till the end of the week
8. All books will ship 4 Octo­ber onwards
9. Open to res­i­dents of the world
10. A spe­cial gift will be announced at the end of the week

Do This.

1. Use the same email id for all com­ments across the week
2. You may leave behind more than one com­ment each day
3. You may reply to other peo­ples comments
4. You may spread the word (twit­ter, blog, wall, etc.) and get your friends to join in
5. Give con­struc­tive criticism
6. Give use­ful valid inputs

Don’t Do This

1. Do not use mul­ti­ple email ids to fool me. Your IP will be monitored
2. Do not use foul lan­guage. You will not win
3. Do not wait till the 11th hour to com­ment, don’t trust tech too much
4. Don’t do any­thing i would not do

What do you get?

I am giv­ing away a book a day for seven days start­ing Sep­tem­ber 27, 2009. I wont tell you the titles yet but to encour­age the kid in you i will tell you who some of the authors are — Ruskin Bond, Salim Ali, Michael Palin, James Her­riott and Nick Mid­dle­ton. The books are priced between Rs. 300 to Rs. 800 each and are not the Who Moved My Cheese kind. They are good, solid, read­able, books that should sit on the shelf of your per­sonal libraries for the rest of your life. Oh, i almost for­got to men­tion – they are all NEW books.

Bonus Prizes

Spread the word (2 books)
Two of you who help my Give Away by spread­ing the word will stand a chance to win a bonus book at the end of the week; each will receive a book. To tell me how you have helped spread the word, please email me at me@junglebook.in

Max­i­mum Par­tic­i­pa­tion (1 book)
One per­son who par­tic­i­pates reg­u­larly and has answered the ques­tion on all the 7 days (or max­i­mum num­ber of days) will receive a book at the end of the week. If more than one per­son qual­i­fies for this prize, then, a ran­dom win­ner will be chosen.

These three win­ners will be announced at the end of the week.

See you tomorrow.