Tag Archives: library sales
Q&A: Should I boycott a cherry-picked book sale?
QUESTION: One of my favorite library sales is now posting a notice that they have an arrangement to sell books online through a private vendor. Have you experienced this before? Are these sales still worth going to, or will all the resellable inventory already be cherry picked? ANSWER: I haven’t personally run into this situation [...]
Scary book sales: Are you a vulture or a goon?
Here’s the most amusing account of an FOL book sale I’ve read in a while. Click through to read the whole article in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Inside, the vultures ravaged the tables to stock their online stores or used bookstores. They had roaming goons, too, minions separating the Hemingways from the Harlequins. Eyes and hands [...]
Should hoarding be banned from book sales?
I received this note from Sandra Adamson at Acquired Books and I think it makes a great editorial: I went to four library sales this weekend, and at every sale there were a couple of teams hoarding all the books. I think it is high time that we as an online bookselling group begin together [...]
Book donation site knocked for selling on ABE, Amazon
Doesn’t it bug you when you go to a library sale and there isn’t a single decent book? It’s obvious when there are thousands of books and nothing but crud, someone has cherry-picked the donations. It’s getting more and more common these days for Friends of the Library groups to skim the cream and sell [...]
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Throwing good books into the dumpster