Book of the Month Club
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The Book of the Month Club (founded 1923) is a United States mail-order business where consumers are offered a new book each month.
The company merged with the Doubleday Book Club, a division of Random House, itself owned by Bertelsmann. All of the book clubs are part of Bookspan, a joint-venture between Time-Warner and Bertelsmann that controls Book of the Month Club, now known as Smart Reader Rewards, and many other book clubs.
The company operates a number of non-general book clubs including:
- American Compass, a club primarily aimed at American conservative readers.
- InsightOut, a book club featuring books of topical interest to gay and lesbian readers
- Mosaico and Circulo, two clubs offering Latin and Spanish-translated selections.
Membership terms
The most common terms of membership involve a "negative response" system whereby a member is offered a monthly book selection which will be mailed to them on a particular date if it is not declined before that date is reached. Customers typically have the option to respond declining the selection or opting to order another book or books instead.In addition, potential members are often offered a selection of books to select from at an arbitrarily low price (for example "4 books for $4.00 each") with the stipulation that once they have accepted this initial shipment, and decided they wish to join the club, they must then purchase a certain number of books within a certain period of time (for example, 2 books within the first year) to complete their obligation to the club.
Clubs operated by Bookspan and affiliates
- American Compass
- Architects & Designers Book Service
- Behavioral Science Book Service
- Black Expressions
- Children's Book-of-the-Month Club
- Círculo de Lectores
- Club Mosaico
- Computer Books Direct
- Crafter's Choice
- Discovery Channel Book Club
- Doubleday Book Club
- Doubleday Large Print
- Early Childhood Teachers' Club
- Equestrian's Edge Book Club
- The Good Cook
- History Book Club
- Home Style Books
- InsightOut
- Kids' BookPlanet
- Library of Speech-Language Pathology
- The Literary Guild
- Military Book Club
- Mystery Guild
- Nurse's Book Society
- One Spirit
- Outdoorsman's Edge
- Primary Teachers' Book Club
- Quality Paperback Books
- The Reader's Subscription
- Rhapsody Book Club
- Scientific American Book Club
- Science Fiction Book Club
- Smart Reader Rewards (Book-of-the-Month Club)
- Stephen King Library
- Zooba
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