Can anyone explain how can it be worth it for anybody to sell used books for $0.01 on Amazon? Even considering shipping allowance seller still has to go through the trouble of packing it, printing a label, shipping and also paying some fee to Amazon - all out of total $3.50. Where is the profit...

Is it cheaper to buy online or buy retail

and found the following calf bound book: The Muses Library : or, A series of English poetry ... Being a general collection of almost all the old valuable poetry extant ... by Langland, Gower, Chaucer, Lidgate ... &c London : Printed for James Hodges, 1741, edited by Elizabeth Cooper. The first...

After months of not-so-veiled references to having infiltrated by PC by John Pelan - which ran simultaneous with a sucession of PC problems, including the sudden deletion of a significant amount of data - I purchased a top-of-the-range internet security system and immediately discovered that...

Have just read many good books in the space of a couple of weeks and feel as though there is now a hole when books I am reading are not as enthralling as others. I really enjoyed Tartt's Secret History and Fowles' The Collector, The Graduate was also a great read in on sitting. So now I have...

If a book is in fine condition except for a remainder mark, is the condition downgraded to very good or good?

Just went to the post office to send a book to Canada and was told that new Canadian regulations require that the addressee's middle initial must be used in the ship to portion. In the return address section, if an individual is using their name as the shipper, they must include their whole middle...

On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 15:26:06 GMT, John A. Stovall wrote: I've bought collections in the past but now I have the opportunity to by a book store in the town where I work. It is a general used bookstore. The present owner a University professor (not at mine but one...

From time to time I've toyed with the idea of designing and printing up a bunch of bookplates, and gluing them into all my hardcovers. Two things stop me. One, it would be a considerable labor and expense. Two, I don't want to decrease the value of my books. What's the deal with bookplates? Do...

My thanks go to Scott Kamins, Mike Berro, Jon Meyers and others for establishing the rec.collecting.books newsgroup in the first place. Wuzzes they were not. In the past, RCB has served its purpose in providing an avenue for the discussion of book collecting. It had a good run and helped guide...

I've just received several eBay purchases from different sellers...first editions of a mystery author I love (Emma Lathen) who -- fortunately for me, I guess -- doesn't seem to be too popular or pricey. But the way these books were wrapped got me to thinking. Some of the books were individually...

Yesterday I happened across the newly published (in the US) _The Shadow of the Wind_ (o.t. _La Sombra del Viento_), by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Apparently it was a bestseller in Spain and throughout Europe, and it has gotten the inevitable comparisons to _The Name of the Rose_ and _The Club...

What is the best way to insure your books? Ignorantly, Allan Adler **************************************************************************** * * * Disclaimer: I am a guest and *not* a member of the...

Hi All I'm looking for some advice on good vampire authors, so far my list contains: Brian Lumley Montague Summers H. P Lovecraft Anne Rice

"Sanjay" wrote... Love is deep like ocean you can never come out. Poem is shallow like barnyard puddle, Sloppy and full of ****. -- Jon Meyers

I'm looking for a economical source for box mailers to send books purchased from my inventory. Has anyone used Uline?

In my travels in USA in (a reIigious bookshop of all places) I found a copy of Jim Morrison 'An American Prayer'. A search on google etc., is not conclusive as to what the true first should look like. This is a small book 5 inches tall and 4 inches wide in slightly grained burgundy red boards...

Could someone tell me if the edithors by the name Pinnacle have a web site? I did a seach on Google and found nothing. Are they own by an other company? Thanks

No, not THAT first. Your first experience in a used or antiquarian bookshop. What was it that turned a casual or even accidental visit into an interest, passion or obsession that transformed your life? The owner? A customer? A fortuitous find? The smell of dust and old leather? Since I've recently...

I'm a Ray Bradbury fanatic. Anyway, a friend sent me an email that there is a signed leather bound copy of Fahrenheit 451 on Ebay with no shipping charges for the winning bidder. Her link didn't work, and I can't seem to find the item in a search. Can anyone help? Thanks....