The economics of selling a paperback book online - Page 2

Tonchi · 01-21-2006, 02:38 AM

You practically gave away a book on MAYAN HISTORY and didn't tell me???!

I have a huge library of Mesoamerican art and history/mythology books, why didn't you let me know? Are you hoarding anything else like that?

Undertoad · 01-21-2006, 04:21 AM

I have a huge number of empty boxes, perhaps we should list our boxes here on the Cellar so we can trade appropriately-sized ones.

Griff · 01-21-2006, 06:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

I have a huge number of empty boxes, perhaps we should list our boxes here on the Cellar so we can trade appropriately-sized ones.

Point taken. Maybe I should just keep boxes of paperbacks by the fireplace.

SteveDallas · 09-19-2007, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

I have a huge number of empty boxes, perhaps we should list our boxes here on the Cellar so we can trade appropriately-sized ones.

Ask, and ye shall receive.

http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/001885.php

Undertoad · 01-21-2006, 06:35 AM

I'm just funnin' ya buddy

Griff · 01-21-2006, 06:38 AM

Sometimes I need a common sense booster.

wolf · 01-22-2006, 12:08 AM

While fun in an enclosed, poorly ventilated space, I recommend duct tape.

xoxoxoBruce · 01-22-2006, 06:53 AM

Not when you're paying postage by weight.......even at book rates, which are cheap.

BigV · 01-25-2006, 11:36 AM

In all seriousness, SteveDallas, you should check out bookcrossing.com. Here's an excerpt of their mission. I find it highly admirable, and I think it deserves consideration given your description of the circumstances here.

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What is BookCrossing?

bookcrossing
n. the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise.

(added to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary in August 2004)

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The "3 Rs" of BookCrossing...

1. Read a good book (you already know how to do that)
2. Register it here (along with your journal comments), get a unique BCID (BookCrossing ID number), and label the book
3. Release it for someone else to read (give it to a friend, leave it on a park bench, donate it to charity, "forget" it in a coffee shop, etc.), and get notified by email each time someone comes here and records journal entries for that book. And if you make Release Notes on the book, others can Go Hunting for it and try to find it!

01-21-2006, 02:38 AM	#1
Tonchi Victim of gravity Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Hiding in plain sight Posts: 1,412	You practically gave away a book on MAYAN HISTORY and didn't tell me???! I have a huge library of Mesoamerican art and history/mythology books, why didn't you let me know? Are you hoarding anything else like that? __________________ Everything you've ever heard about Fresno is true.

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Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Sometimes I need a common sense booster. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

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wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	While fun in an enclosed, poorly ventilated space, I recommend duct tape. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

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xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Not when you're paying postage by weight.......even at book rates, which are cheap. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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01-21-2006, 04:21 AM	#2
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	I have a huge number of empty boxes, perhaps we should list our boxes here on the Cellar so we can trade appropriately-sized ones.

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Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	I'm just funnin' ya buddy

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