The economics of selling a paperback book online - Page 2

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.

SteveDallas · 01-21-2006, 08:36 AM

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Originally Posted by BigV

You may find an answer to your problem in this book.

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Originally Posted by ether42

here are a few ideas
1. wallpaper
2. toilet paper

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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.

What a bunch of smartasses!!!

Thank you for your kind suggestions.

I have never considered using the priority mail boxes for this because you have to use priority mail postage on them, which isn't in the budget. re-folding the boxes to put the printed side inside seems just evil. I'll have to give it a try. (Not only evil, but so obvious I wouldn't be surprised if the USPS started printing something on the insides.)

monster · 01-21-2006, 10:06 PM

Just leave them lying around places -in coffee shops, on park benches (on dry days) with a note saying "please take me and read me and pass me on" or something like that. What about the homeless and domestic violence shelters? They might want them.

You can get suitable bubble envelopes 4/$1 in dollar stores, btw.

xoxoxoBruce · 01-21-2006, 10:15 PM

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(Not only evil, but so obvious I wouldn't be surprised if the USPS started printing something on the insides.)

Spray paint.

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!

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

01-21-2006, 06:38 AM	#17
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

01-21-2006, 10:06 PM	#19
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Just leave them lying around places -in coffee shops, on park benches (on dry days) with a note saying "please take me and read me and pass me on" or something like that. What about the homeless and domestic violence shelters? They might want them. You can get suitable bubble envelopes 4/$1 in dollar stores, btw. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

01-22-2006, 12:08 AM	#21
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

01-22-2006, 06:53 AM	#22
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.

01-21-2006, 06:35 AM	#16
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	I'm just funnin' ya buddy

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