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I've got a few academic books that I want to get rid of, but I'm kind of out of the loop when it comes to students buying used books online nowadays. I only use Amazon Marketplace to look for used books; do students still use Half.com? I've got a film studies book I'd rather sell on Half because it's going for peanuts on Amazon Marketplace, and if I were to list it on Marketplace, I'd be getting less than a dollar after Amazon takes its cut. But does Half still get traffic?

― Leeeeee (Leee), Monday, 13 June 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

i use half.com to buy 80% of my books but selling hasn't been going as well for me. i've sold a few, though, and gotten way more than the bookstore would pay for them.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 13 June 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

I just sold like 5 books on half. One of them was a 1990 edition & I got $15 for it, which aint bad. Price below everyone else - I've sold everything within a week.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

What books are they?

― fun (you better believe it), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 10:23 (twenty years ago)

Leee, put yourself in the shoes of someone who wants to buy the book you have. Are they at all likely to go straight to Half.com and "forget" that Amazon might also have it for very cheap? I think Amazon is still the first place that 99.9% of the Internet checks when they want to buy a book -- so if it's going for dirt cheap at Amazon, most people will buy it there.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

That's what I was thinking, Chris.

The books that I'm trying to get rid of, by subject:

Film Theory:
eds. Leo Baudry, Marshall Cohen, Film Theory & Criticism: Introductory Readings
David Bordwell & Kirsten Thompson, Film Art: An Introduction
VF Perkins, Film As Film
George Wilson, Narration in Light

Gender/Linguistics:
Susan Bordo - The Male Body
Eckert & McConnell-Ginet - Language and Gender
Don Kulick - Travesti
Deborah Tannen - You Just Don't Understand

― Leeeeee (Leee), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

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