14 Dec
2014
14 Dec
'14
9:09 p.m.
On 12/14/2014 5:53 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 12/14/2014 04:51 PM, David Williams wrote:
I use alibris.com, biblio.com and abebooks.com. Some sellers also cross
list onto amazon.
I don't know if the listed books on amazon have a way to upload via
other than sending a CSV list, but it is easy to see where things can go
sideways if you export your <xyz Bookselling app> database, and then
massage it and send the resulting 10 or 15k books to amazon.
The gaming of the prices is interesting, but I always shop across all 4
sites. They don't do it in sync apparently. The core book was 60 bucks
on one of the sites, and sounds good enough to snag. If it is a good
enough reference and not just pretty pictures, I'll get the ebook. I
have several books in the pile to scan, that I have not gotten to yet
and many I owe to Al, so an ebook in the online library I have would be
nice.
thanks
Jim
Out of print books of limited quantity sold on
Amazon tends to have
ridiculous prices that have no reflection of actual interest or
demand for the book. I've seen this on lots of books listed on Amazon
and other places tend to check there to see what something is "worth"
first. Just takes one person to list it for a high price and everyone
else joins in. I bought that book when it first came out for $23.10
and Amazon later sold me the ebook for $2.99 since I bought the print
version previously. It is a nice book but not really worth much more
than that imo. I'll bet you most of those people aren't selling any
copies either.
As Al noted, used book prices via Amazon tend to have no relation to
supply and demand or even common sense. See this doozy:
http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358
--Chuck