Does anyone have any experience selling books via Amazon? I'm thinking about it for some of my old grad school books - a few of which are worth a lot - and wondering what people's experiences have been. I have sold stuff on ebay, but Amazon seems like a better fit for these books. Except it looks like it's mostly book dealers?
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flea - Aug 18, 2009 7:30:31 am PDT #9840 of 28385
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megan walker - Aug 18, 2009 9:50:20 am PDT #9841 of 28385
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flea,
I've been doing it for the last year or so, mostly with academic books and French items (comics, novels) that are fairly expensive here. I just took a quick look at my account and have sold about 30 items for $500. For personal things (novels, travel books, etc.), it doesn't seem worth the trouble because the "stores" have shipping deals and can sell those things for rock-bottom prices.
I have a few items that mostly just sit there, even though they are well under the crazy prices for new, either because they are obscure, or because they don't show up properly in searches (some Tintin editions I have). But every once in awhile someone shows up to buy one.
I find it remarkably easy to list and price things (compared to ebay), and now you don't have to re-list ever (though, given my Amazon programming sources I know it's better to delete and re-list every so often). Of course, when I began I was living with said programming source, who got packages from Amazon almost every day, so I didn't have to buy packaging. And I work across from a post office.
Feel free to ping me with questions.
Laga - Aug 19, 2009 10:11:15 am PDT #9842 of 28385
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Mom gave me Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris because "it has vampires in it." It seems to be the latest in a number of books about the same heroine. Will I be lost if I dive in? At first glance it seems not that great. Thoughts?
Glamcookie - Aug 19, 2009 10:15:23 am PDT #9843 of 28385
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Laga, those are the books that the (great) show True Blood is based on. DW is reading them now and has deemed them fluffy fun.
Laga - Aug 19, 2009 10:29:47 am PDT #9844 of 28385
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Thanks, GC. Does DW have an opinion about reading them out of order?
Hayden - Aug 19, 2009 10:39:30 am PDT #9845 of 28385
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I don't know about the order, but my wife loves them, too.
-t - Aug 19, 2009 10:52:55 am PDT #9846 of 28385
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I started reading them out of order, Laga, and didn't find it to be a problem. Though I did go back and start at the beginning after I realized it was a series, because that is what I do.
Laga - Aug 19, 2009 11:41:14 am PDT #9847 of 28385
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cool, thanks.
sj - Aug 20, 2009 1:07:30 pm PDT #9848 of 28385
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I read the first of the Mercy Thompson books by Patricia Briggs yesterday and really enjoyed it. I ordered books 2 and 3 today because the bookstore was out of them, but I was wondering what people thought of her other series? Any particular ones better than others?
Pix - Aug 20, 2009 7:03:26 pm PDT #9849 of 28385
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I love all of Briggs' series, but her Mercy Thompson books are my favorite. You might also like Ilona Andrews' books, sj, if you haven't read them.