[Publib] A Different Idea for Selling Withdrawn Library Books

[K.G. Schneider]

One of the first questions I have about any ecommerce site is "who is behind
it," but when I go to the About Page (linked from the left of the main page
at www.librarybooksales.org <http://www.librarybooksales.org/>  ) there is
reference to "we" without clarifying who "we" are (people involved, size of
database, number of members, company history, etc.). 

 

The site also states, "Buyers will find a state-of-the-art shopping cart for
their purchases (since most libraries are not set up for credit cards, only
checks, cash or money orders are accepted at this time)." How can an
e-commerce operation based on "checks, cash, or money orders" be considered
"state of the art" and "easy to use"? 

 

Karen G. Schneider

kgs at freerangelibrarian.com 

 

 

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From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org]
On Behalf Of Robin K. Blum
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 11:22 AM
To: Pub-Lib (Posts) 
Subject: [Publib] A Different Idea for Selling Withdrawn Library Books

 

Neither E-Bay nor Amazon need be an automatic solution to selling withdrawn
library books.  For your better quality books (not loaned hundreds of
times.) there's a very good organization that has the library's best
interests in mind (instead of the corporate bottom line).  Such a one is

http://www.librarybooksales.org/.  The site is easy to use and has a large
listing of public libraries that already have successfully sold books with
them.  Here's a snip from their website, which will give you an idea of
their mission: 

 

"The project is open to any library. Public, private, institutional, special
collections, educational, foreign or domestic. The goal is for libraries to
generate much needed funds to continue serving the "better good". The
project is not open to commercial book sellers.

These libraries can now sell their better books on the web. These may be
books that have been donated to the library, duplicate copies, monographs or
surplus materials. We try to discourage the sale of ex-libris books, since
most serious book buyers don't want to own books that look like they were
permanently borrowed from their local library. The project is a "win-win".
Libraries raise much-needed funds and book buyers get great books at great
prices."

 

Robin K. Blum

www.inmybook.com <http://www.inmybook.com/>  

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