SC - Find Used/OP Books, was OT: Eating the Script Girl

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Medb wrote:
>O.K. I just checked my standby (Amazon).  There are supposedly 2 
>copies available through e-shops that are hooked up with Amazon. 
>One copy is $103, and the other is $125. I do have a search through 
>thier used-book suppliers, and hopefully may find one at a cheaper 
>price (no pun intended...)  They are pretty good on their searches, 
>I know they looked for an item my husband wanted for 2 yrs, or so, 
>and did finally find it.

If you're looking for used books, i HIGHLY recommend using
http://www.bookfinder.com

bookfinder.com is basically a meta-search engine of book dealers: it 
searches abebooks, bibliofind, alibris, and a huge number of 
additional used book vendors, as well as a small list of new book 
sellers, such as amazon, barnes & noble, and some others.

amazon.com marks up the prices on used books, since they buy them 
from a book vendor then resell them. I know amazon.com searches many 
of the same used book dealers as bookfinder.com because i found a 
book i wanted via bookfinder that was at a local bookseller. I called 
them to ask them to hold it for me, but they had just been contacted 
by amazon.com who bought it from them. I'm not faulting amazon for 
marking up the books - that's normal business practice - but you can 
find stuff more cheaply if you go to the actual used book vendor, 
rather than through amazon.com.

While alibris.com is strictly a used book seller, it works similarly 
to amazon.com, that is, it lists books that are being sold by various 
used book dealers, with an additional price markup. I have 
occasionally found a book there that wasn't listed elsewhere But 
alibris.com is searched by bookfinder.com, so i don't have to make a 
multitude of searches.

So, again, i recommend bookfinder.com for used book searches - and 
they find vendors in Australia, England, and continental Europe that 
show up, too, so it isn't just for North Americans.

Anahita