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Used Books: An Actual Internet Success Story
theodp writes: "An Actual Internet Success Story explains how, in just a few years, the Internet has transformed the world into a huge marketplace for used books, utterly transforming a business that had gone pretty much unobserved for centuries. The Net has changed how we buy and think about books - someone in Illinois can easily buy a cheap used hardback over the Net from a New York dealer, read it and then resell it to someone in California, having spent, in effect, only a few dollars. According to the story, the increase in the number of used books sold is staggering, maybe 100 times what it was in 1995, and now accounts for more than 15 percent of Amazon's sales. Tales are told of used book dealers lining up nine hours before a library sale to get 'free money,' cutting deals with thrift-store managers and library-sale organizers to avoid 'feeding frenzy' fights, volunteering at the Salvation Army to get first dibs on donations, and offering review copies for half price on the Net weeks before a book is even published."
We are working on that.
;-)
BTW, where do you hide your books
Warmest regards,
Guy Montag
Eve Fairbanks says I drive a hybrid!LOL
plus, used bookstores smell good.
and they usually have a cat.
I can't believe it's not lard!
Could be worse. I borrowed one of my gf's books, that she'd obviously studied at some point in the past as it was full of notes.
Unfortunately, they really catch your eye. I was half way through the book, when I came across an underlined sentence with a note reading, "This is why he dies at the end."
Arrrghh!
Igor Presnyakov stole my hat
/me has a look at his bookcase and tries to estimate the dollar value of the used books there - then equates it to computer upgrades. $-)
Video Game cheats, hints a
Do like I did. I filled out the registration. Within days I was barraged by spam. So, what's an aspiring [sic] person to do? I went to my NYTimes profile and changed my email address. I wonder if 'webmaster@nytimes.com' wonders "why all the the extra spam?"??
What those who want activist courts fear is rule by the people.
Then we'll have live performances of books by the authors. Smaller authors will open for the bigger ones. Soon enough all the authors will become hopelessly addicted to drugs to deal with the stress of being on the road so often. Publishing companies will have to make most of their money off of young teen authors whose work is written for them by someone else.