Tag Archives: collectible books
If a book is old, is it rare? Collectible?
The general belief is that if a book is old it must then be rare… Books can be collectible without being rare. These would be titles or authors that have resonance with the collector. Fight Club and first editions or signed editions from the Twilight saga are examples of collectible books. via Powell’s Books – [...]
FBI-seized antiquarian library going up for auction
–Those of you near Chicago might be interested in this: An auction featuring over 75 lots of early Italian and Latin literature from the antiquarian book library of John Sisto of Berwyn, Illinois. The books, maps and engravings comprise what remains of the over 3,500 items seized by the Chicago division of the Federal Bureau [...]
Amazon adds new attributes for collectible books
Here’s a nice feature they’ve just added to Amazon Marketplace for collectible listings: Attributes for Signed By, Collectible Edition, and Dust Jacket Condition. This should prevent a few misunderstandings with buyers, and help differentiate your listings. See more details in the announcement. Here’s how it appears (see the bottom listing):
Highest-priced collectible book on Amazon?
They must have lifted the ceiling on the maximum price on Amazon Marketplace, which used to be about $2,400. Just found this “collectible” priced at a cool billion. Yeah, billion with a B. Can you imagine paying a commission to Amazon for $150,000? And then you’d have to eat the insurance!
Amazon won’t require Pro-Merchant status for collectible book sellers
Amazon’s Marketplace managers must have gotten an earful from outraged booksellers upset about its plans to charge dealers $40 a month to sell collectible books. Without much explanation, they’ve dropped the requirement. I’ve never seen Amazon back off a proposed policy change as quickly as this one. Both sides have some merit. Pro-Merchants, on average, [...]
Jumping through hoops to sell collectible books on Amazon
Amazon’s new restrictions on selling collectible books go into effect today. Last week, they published this warning that sellers must apply for pre-approval to list collectibles such as signed books, first editions, etc. This is a “category” approval, the same red tape you’d face if you began selling toys on Amazon during the Christmas season. [...]
Q&A: Are recalled or banned books valuable?
QUESTION: There have been a few books in the news recently from authors who claimed that the events they wrote about in their memoirs were true when in fact they were fictionalized. Recently one was said to be “recalled” by the publisher. If you can find copies, perhaps these are good books to invest in [...]
Book dealers urged to abandon Amazon, eBay and AbeBooks
Guy Weller over at the Bookshop Blog has some advice for those who use Amazon, eBay and AbeBooks to list their used and rare books: Take a hike! These megasites are “dictating far too much to us as to how we should fashion our listings, and how we should list on their sites … This [...]
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