selling books on-line

[Josiah Miller]

I dumped alot of unwanted books at paperbackswap.com or bookmooch.com.  For 
every book that you send to somebody, you get a point to browse and request a 
book that you may enjoy from someone else.  I found a lot of really awesome 
books.  
I found that people aren't really buying books unless that are of the rare sort. 
 If you have a 1st Edition hardcopy of something that someone wants to buy, you 
are going to have to make sure it is either in mint unread condition or you 
describe it to a T.  These collectors are super picky, and why would you want a 
book that is collecting dust not being read anyways?  Sheesh.

I found the best way to unload books that I couldn't sale online would be to 
take them to a used book store like Half Price Books if you have one of those 
near you.  You can get cash or credit.  They don't give you much, but they will 
take everything.
Hopefully that helps.

Josiah


----- Original Message ----
From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
To: Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com>
Cc: Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>; P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wed, August 25, 2010 3:03:27 PM
Subject: Re: selling books on-line

Which is something you might consider, used-book sellers.  They
usually buy or trade.  If for every book you offered, you received one
back, that might be a pleasurable way of culling.

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:
> They don't sell them.  They are acting as a go-between for used-book sellers.