Seattle Post-Intelligencer: AP - A&E: Study: Used books are $2 billion industry
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: AP - A&E: Study: Used books are $2 billion industry
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Glad to hear/read it. there are a lot of comments made by folks in the new biz here but they left us, the used book sellers, out.
We sell mostly out of print books and as such I don’t see where we hurt the publishers or the authors AT ALL. Where else is someone supposed to find out of print books?
http://www.bluespringsbazaar.com, our business is internet only. Not sure that we will stay that way but for now tis the only outlet we have. At present time we have somewhere over 17000 books with about 2700 online. Still got a LOT of shelves to build just to house current stock.
But in all of those we only have 200 to 300 used books that are on the shelves here that you would find on the shelves in a new book store. The rest are out of print. And the ones that are still in print don’t sell as well as the ones that aren’t.
So I just don’t see how the publishing houses can say that we are hurting them as badly as they are saying. Seems like a lot of FUD to me. But that’s just my personal opinion…