SC - A Soup for the Qan, Again!

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Actually, Amazon.com searches for out of print books via 
www.bookfinder.com, which in turn searches all the major used/rare book 
databases. Bookfinder is a publicly accessible search engine and I urge any 
of you looking for hard-to-find books to use it, and to buy from the 
independent booksellers who list their books on the used/rare databases. Do 
not buy used or out of print books from Alibris or Barnes & Noble because 
in the majority of cases they list the same copies of the same books 
available on the used/rare databases, except the books are marked up 
heavily. Alibris and Barnes & Noble want customers to believe they already 
own these books and have them waiting in a warehouse to ship to customers, 
but they don't, they purchase from an independent bookseller only after a 
customer places an order for a particular book. Alibris maintains a small 
inventory of their own books but in the majority of cases other copies are 
readily available from independents listing on the used/rare databases, at 
lower prices.

  Amazon buys used books from me via the Bibliofind database, which is one 
of the databases Bookfinder searches.

Amanda
Acanthus Books
http://www.acanthus-books.com

At 07:53 AM 5/22/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>another great place to search for books is
>http://www.powellsbooks.com/  This is Portland, OR's Powell's City of
>Books.  (It's even better IRL!)  anyway, they have being the distinct
>honor of being the place that amazon.com goes when they can't locate
>a book.  Although neither of the above books was listed as having a
>copy.
>