welcome to lip’s bookshop!
Avid Facebook followers may have noticed that Lip has “opened” a bookshop!
Basically, I keep moving house and having to lug books around the place, and so I suggested to the Lip ladies that we sell our pre-loved books to you, our much-loved readers! Don’t you find it’s that much easier to part with books when you know they’re going to a good home? And an added bonus is that you get to support Lip while you indulge your addiction to book buying!
So how’s it all going to work? Well, we decided that the easiest way for us to upload and update our bookshop would be to just create a photo album on our Facebook page, where you can check out the titles, read a little about them in our witty captions, see the condition they’re in and then simply write ‘Sold!’ in the comments to purchase any books you’re interested in. From there, I will send you a Facebook message with payment instructions, and upon receipt of payment and your mailing address, the book/s will be sent out to you!
Postage within Australia is included in the prices, and we’ve done our research to be competitive with the bigwigs. Of course, we won’t protest if you’d like to make a donation along with the purchase price 😉
As it’s such a new venture for us, this process will likely be refined with time but for now, this is the best method we’ve got!
Feel free to post any questions and comments below, but I’ll try to pre-empt any FAQs here:
Where exactly will the money go?
First off it will pay for postage and packaging! At this point, just about all the money we raise is going towards our next print issue, with small amounts spent here and there on promotional materials.
Wtf Dunja, why is the money going into your personal account? Isn’t the money for Lip?
Well spotted little bear! This is just our DIY way of streamlining the whole purchase process: money comes to me, I pay for postage out of your $$, then transfer the rest to the Lip account. This was decided in consultation with the other editors, so you can rest assured that I’m still accountable to our, er, account.
Your prices are very low, is this a front for some kind of drug cartel?
Uh, no. See, we know that the appeal to buying online is that it’s cheaper than going into a store. It’s also more convenient, but there is a risk in buying something secondhand that you haven’t seen (although we endeavour to let you know of any faults). So we’re trying to provide you with incentive to buy from us and help us raise funds for the next issue of Lip, rather than buying new from (okay fine, I’ll say it) The Book Depository. It’s also more environmentally friendly to buy used books rather than new copies!
I HAVEN’T GOT YOUR MESSAGE WAHHHHH!!!11!1!
Have you noticed that you haven’t been inundated with event updates in your inbox over the last while? That’s because Zuckerberg created an ‘Other’ folder to catch all the messages you might not want cluttering up the space around your personal correspondence. But this is where you will find the message from me if it is not in your inbox:
Can I request titles?
In an effort to not become a relentless disappointment to you, let’s say no.
Ooooh, I’ve got books I don’t want, you want ’em?
Ooooh, probably! Email me at [email protected] and let’s talk! At this stage, we can probably only pick up books in Adelaide, Melbourne and Canberra, but if you’re located in one of those cities, get in touch!
Click here to visit our new Lip Bookshop on Facebook!
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