Yeesh, thanks for the heads-up. I don't this will be enforceable, at first glance anyway.
Second glance - WHAT multi-million dollar industry?!!!! Only if you're talking about rare/1st edition/antiquarian books. I stock no more than 30% used/70% new here and I can tell you the profit margin on the used is probably half what the new books are. That's because two days a week, I do one-dollar-a-used-book sales and boy, the public comes out for it. One dollar doesn't pay for database backups every night. :/
The idea behind used books is to fulfill an addiction/market that new books can't (e.g. too expensive). And once the public has grabbed the first book in a series, they're liable to buy more of the same author.
The end run will be that libraries and bookstores give away, burn or pulp these used books before they track royalties.
Sorry, sorry, backing away from the soapbox now. Lauretta
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Used books are a multi-million dollar industry?!
2008-12-28 00:33 (UTC)I don't this will be enforceable, at first glance anyway.
Second glance - WHAT multi-million dollar industry?!!!!
Only if you're talking about rare/1st edition/antiquarian books.
I stock no more than 30% used/70% new here and I can tell you the
profit margin on the used is probably half what the new books are.
That's because two days a week, I do one-dollar-a-used-book sales
and boy, the public comes out for it. One dollar doesn't pay for database backups every night. :/
The idea behind used books is to fulfill an addiction/market that
new books can't (e.g. too expensive). And once the public has grabbed the first book in a series, they're liable to buy more of the same author.
The end run will be that libraries and bookstores give away, burn or pulp these used books before they track royalties.
Sorry, sorry, backing away from the soapbox now.
Lauretta