[lit-ideas] Re: books on amazon
- From: John Wager <john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:37:10 -0600
Andreas Ramos wrote:
i've been using amazon.com for several years, but i've always bought
the books at the standard price.
after the long list of suggested books to read a few weeks ago on this
list, i had a list of some 20-30 books i wanted to buy. so i was on
Amazon this morning, and i looked into the used books at Amazon. i
hadn't realized that this was so cheap.
many books sell for a dollar or less (esp. "literary" stuff). hundreds
of used-bookstores around the country have put their inventory online
and they are selling their books via Amazon.
You might save quite a bit more by eliminating the Amazon.com middle
man. There are hundreds of used book dealers who do sell through
Amazon, but this comes at a hefty premium of the price. There are other
websites that list the same books from the same book dealers but for a
bit less than Amazon does, and more of this goes to the book dealer
rather than Amazon.
My favorite is Alibris, here:
http://www.alibris.com/
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Lisle, IL, USA
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