Buy and Sell Ex-Library Books for Sky High Profits on eBay
All public libraries have limited space and must offload older books – also CDs and DVDs – to make room for new and that’s why you’ll find regular sales taking place in libraries and advertised for a few weeks on library notice boards. You can find some great bargains at library sales for goods costing pennies or a few pounds at most with potential to fetch profits of five or ten dollars – or pounds or any other country currency – apiece.
That may not sound like a lot of profit until you consider it takes about half an hour to pick up and pay for twenty ex-library books and another two hours to list them on eBay. Then if those twenty books fetch just a fiver pure profit apiece, that’s one hundred pounds you’ve just made. So you really can consider this a full-time business, or a part-time venture where you use your spare time to make money for holidays or Christmas presents.
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The New York Public Library has 87 branches, but recently some patrons have decided to forgo all of them, and visit the stacks in their living rooms instead.
As the popularity of e-books has increased, libraries across the country have installed virtual stacks. At the New York Public Library’s website, patrons can check out audio books and e-books, temporarily downloading items directly to their computers or mobile devices, without ever stepping inside a physical library. “As our readership goes online, our materials dollars are going online,” Christopher Platt, the director of collections and circulating operations for the New York Public Library told The New York Times.(1) The American Library Association estimates that two out of every three libraries now offer e-books.
But a recent decision by HarperCollins may slow the growth of libraries’ digital collections. The publisher announced this month that it will set a lending limit for new e-books it sells to libraries. Under the new policy, after a HarperCollins e-book is checked out 26 times, it will self-destruct. The limit is intended to provide a digital equivalent of the ordinary wear and tear that, over time, causes paper books to expire.
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