To Bee Read May 2024 🐝 LitJoy Crate 🐝 To Bee Read Unboxing

LitJoy Crate To Bee Read Box: May 2024

[@michaelchilders1517]

Bookmark is cool !

[@nikkilovesbooks]

@@michaelchilders1517 Agreed! 🎉

[@Sisichapters15]

I chose the same book. I have heard great things about it, so I’m excited to read it. My favorite thing about the TBR box are the options, especially the reward points. I added on The Kingdom of the Wicked Notebook too. ☺ I’m excited to see what you picked for the August box both options were popular.

[@nikkilovesbooks]

I am SO excited to read the book, it will be a nice change in pace for me to have a humorous fiction as I've been reading a lot of fantasy, which I absolutely love but I really enjoy switching things up too. And right?! Having the reward points being an option to pick for the first 2 tiers is really awesome! I like getting some of their special editions and merch outside of the TBR box so I end up using them. And nice, love the Wicked Notebook, it is pretty. I'm excited for our August TBR boxes as well, I do believe mine will be delayed though if I'm not mistaken due to the book choice I made. I might be misremembering but I could have sworn there was an email sent out saying that one of the books was behind schedule or had printing issues of some kind. Regardless, I will be thrilled once I get the August box!

[@LJG7654]

Hmm. I appreciate that they let you skip some of the items for credit instead. I would have done the same. Like the bookmark. Looks thin enough to use too. The rest, well, not really my taste either. I do like that they offer 2 different types but to have the fantasy one be a sequel seems very odd. I'd probably have skipped the whole box as the other book doesn't really interest me either. But still, fun to see what they offered! Thanks for sharing!

[@nikkilovesbooks]

Yes, I do love that they allow items to be skipped for credit especially since I do end up buying some of their special editions outside of their box sub. They often do special editions of popular series that are annotated by the author which is cool and different from other special editions. I was also shocked that they did sequels of special edition books that they did in the past as one of the options in their book sub but found out from a long term subscriber that it was voted on by subscribers to do that way. There was a preference to include them as one of the options instead as a separate purchase. I don't necessarily like it or think it's a great model but I do appreciate that the company did a survey and allowed the subscribers to decide how to deal with sequels. Thanks for watching! 💕

[@LJG7654]

@@nikkilovesbooks I guess if they asked their customers...but it seems like it would prevent new people from subbing b/c you wouldn't be able to get the 1st book. Or at least that is how I'd feel!

[@nikkilovesbooks]

@@LJG7654 Yeah, I did not know that they did that until after I subscribed, I was not thrilled. But this is exactly why they offer 2 books per box I guess 🤷‍♀ I think a better business model would be to offer 2 different books per month that aren't sequels and then have the sequels be a 3rd option if people want them in the box. That's probably asking way too much tho 😅

[@LJG7654]

@@nikkilovesbooks Sounds a bit more reasonable to me! Or have the sequel a special edition like the rest of the boxes do...

[@Sisichapters15]

@@nikkilovesbooks i have an update on sequels. In a recent Litjoy live, the owners indicated that they may not continue putting the sequels in the book box. They are looking to see what the best option is moving forward. I was one of the people that voted to keep in the box, but I'm reconsidering this since it limits the book selections we have each month. I do understand that it's a cost savings for some people to keep it in the box. They talked about a 3rd option in the beginning, but I’m not sure if that’s easy to program.

[@saramm3765]

The only reason I've gotten this box this past year was to get the second and third book in the Twin Crowns series for my teen because book 1 was one of their original book box picks. When they switched to this To Bee Read structure I was shocked follow-up books in a series were part of it instead of being sold in the shop for everyone that received the first book. This puts me off from this box now that we have all three in that series. I'll still buy their special annotated editions when ones come out I love but will not be a subscriber because for me that was a poor business choice.

[@nikkilovesbooks]

That's totally fair. I was also shocked that they were including sequels as one of the choices in their TBR boxes, I don't think it's a good model and I don't like it. However, I had a long time subscriber reach out and let me know that they apparently did a survey and that majority of subscribers voted to have the sequels available in the TBR boxes instead of a separate purchase and that spares would always be available in the shop after boxes went out. Again like you, I don't like this model but I can appreciate that they allowed their subscribers to have a voice and followed what the majority wanted. I also buy their special annotated editions for books that I love but haven't decided if I will continue the TBR sub, thankfully I have till January to make that decision.