Books On Bart This Week

Murder at Bertram's Bower
Monster - a biography of LA murderer
Mrs Perfect
Unaccostomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri
Musicophilia
Reconstructing Clothes for Dummies
The Scream
Safe and Sustainable World
The Yellow Rose Trilogy
You Can Heal Your Life
Rich Dad Poor Dad
Intuition
The Judas Strain
The 13th Juror
Devils Web
The Connection
Mortgage Free For Life
Fade Away
The Tenth Circle
Bhagavad Gita
No Ordinary Time
San Francisco Tenderloin
The Da Vinci Code
Calculus
Decision Theory
Selling All
Accounting
System Design
Stalking The Vampire
Stronghold - Melanie Rawn
Sex,Drugs and Cocoa Puffs
Race of the Century
Beautiful Lies
Matters - Iain M Banks
An Irish Country Doctor
Speaker for the Dead
Women of Magdalene
Under the Banner of Heaven
Michael Cabon. The Yiddish Policemen's Guide
Precalculus - Sullivan
Jazz Masters of the Fifties
Sleep No More
Interpreter of Maladies
Aloha Mr. Lucky

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Books on Bart This week

Feather Crowns Black Friday - James Patterson Under World - don deLillo A Passage To India Principles of Water Rates Fees and Charges Inspired - How To Create Products Customers Love Pride and Prejudice Certain Girls The Din In The Head Shopaholic Takes Manhatten Curse of the Spellmans Belt Preventive Maintenance Manual For Edgar Echoes of an Alien Sky Principles Of Marketing The Shakespeare Wars Swan Park Persuasion - Jane Austen John Adams - David McColough Collapse Casino Royale Rereading America - colombo, cullen Factotum She's Come Undone The Berlin Stories Pink Carnation Liberating Paris Cooking Up Murder Makig Waves - Catherine Todd Angels - marian Keyes Code Check HVAC Shoot Him If He Runs Foot and Lower Extremity Biomechanics The Parisians Fundamentals of Foot Surgery The Bible - pocket edition A Time For Trumpets Cycling Vietnam

Books On BART This Week

Only Revolutions How will we feed ourselves Simple Genius The Wheel of Darkness Sisters & Lovers For Whom The Bell Tolls Marathon for Dummies If you liked school you'll love work Separation Anxiety and Anger Second Sight - charles mccarry Atonement Positioning Made to stick Presentation Zen Night Shift - Stephen King The Taking Washinton Square The Art of Doubles Tell me Lies The Bourne Identity Fooled By Randomness Kafka The Tempest Tales High Fidelity One Up On Wall Street The Wise Heart Hannibal - Thomas Harris Embrace The Night Dispatches From The Edge Intrigue Alaska. A novel. Joe College Tribal Leadership Baby Proof Livingstone's Daughter The Broken Window Second Chance Lullabies for little criminals - Heather O'neil Cheaters - Eric Jerome Dickey

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BART Writes Back

I sent BART the suggestion to I made in a previous post on user generated book lists. I used their simple contact form. I was surprised that someone read it and sent in a more than a canned response like " we will consider".

it sounds to me like it's a user-generated BART best seller list of sorts?
it would be cool to tie-in with a local, independent bookstore to keep it
Bay Area. We're actually launching some BART imixes along with another
initiative (but without the social input)

as you probably realize, we often have to make a distinction between "need
to have" and "nice to have" when we consider projects from a time/resource
point of view. This seems like it's more on the "nice to have" part of
that continuum, but we're definitely adding it to our development list for
consideration.

we really appreciate your thoughts -- thanks for contacting us

The message is not fundamentally different from the circular file response but I know that they spent more than few seconds on it, parsed it and understood it. This is refreshingly different.

Here is an Idea For Borders Bookstores

Since May I have been commuting on BART, the Bay Area Rapid Transit system. One thing that struck me is the readership on BART. I am surprised by the number of people who read and by the titles. As you might have noticed I started posting the titles I see from my Blackberry, mostly as a note to self.

But this is a great opportunity for two entities, BART and Borders.

As the ridership increases, the trains become more crowded and delays proliferate BART will need a way to engage its riders. Would it not be great if BART created a website of book lists of books seen on BART? As a low tech, low cost effort it could be a simple digg like page to which people add books or add their count to existing books. If they want to get fancy, they could install bar code scanners in key stations, people just swipe their books and presto it will get added to the book list web page.

Borders which is facing store closings and suffering losses just canceled its deal with amazon.com for its web offering and started doing its own web channel. It would benefit from in two ways if it did this project for BART hosted the lists at its expense. The PR on this project , and the sales from adding a "Buy Now" button next each book listing. In fact Borders can then make this generic and let anyone create public book lists, they stand to benefit from the Long Tail.

If these two choose to do it, I would make one additional recommendation: make the site public with no login requirement. The latter would simply kill it.