SC - King's and Queen's Taste
Acanthus Books
acanthusbk at worldnet.att.net
Mon May 22 08:24:58 PDT 2000
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.
>
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