I don't get Amazon
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What are you after rich...another copy of "It's Not About The Book" ? 
What are you after rich...another copy of "It's Not About The Book" ?
Oh bollix, I told you I was stoopid!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/0007242344/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new
Ashtrayhead
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- Belvedere, Kent.
Never mind. Go and have a little lie down!
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
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Wait till you attempt to buy a Moth book 
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
Turning all serious for a moment, my best guess is that there are a number of second-hand book dealers whose business model is to buy up libraries at, say, 2p per book. As long as they can sell more than one in 2,500 for £50 a pop they've made money. It costs effectively nothing to put books up for sale on Amazon - a cheap barcode reader and a freebie ISBN database will do all the hard work for you, so there's no particular incentive to price sensibly. You could probably even write a programme which will automatically discount each book until you get a sale or take the price below some pre-determined level. In these days of increased recycling there's almost certainly a market for the books that go for pulping, too.
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Slightly off topic, on the subject of freebie ISBN database, and a cheap barcode reader - do you know where to find those, and what sort of reader is needed please?
XmisterIS
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That's not the worst of it; it always amuses me when I see people trying to sell stuff on EBay for twice the price that you can buy it elsewhere!
E.g. I buy my bog paper in bulk of EBay because most of it costs a fraction of what the supermarkets charge, but I always see astonishing things there - last time it was some chap trying to sell a 4-pack of bog roll for £10. I shoot ye not.
E.g. I buy my bog paper in bulk of EBay because most of it costs a fraction of what the supermarkets charge, but I always see astonishing things there - last time it was some chap trying to sell a 4-pack of bog roll for £10. I shoot ye not.
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Ianrauk of this parish is a world authority on barcodes - he'll be along in a moment...
