{"id":141,"date":"2009-04-28T22:00:23","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T05:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/islemaster.wordpress.com\/?p=141"},"modified":"2014-03-17T00:21:08","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T07:21:08","slug":"selling-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/selling-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, I finally got around to selling books down at Powell’s City of Books<\/a> downtown. I had a couple boxes full of books that I’d been waiting to sell, and several around the house besides. So I gathered them all into a corner of the living room, hunkered down over my laptop and used Powell’s Online Bookbuyer<\/a> to get a feel for what they might accept.<\/p>\n

The online tool took about half of my books and offered me around fifty dollars for the lot. Of course, selling online takes a few weeks to process – I’d much rather get it over with. So I grabbed all the books that the website said it would take, and all the books that were pretty similar to those, and headed downtown.<\/p>\n

The line wasn’t bad for a Saturday, and I wasn’t the only person carrying two boxes of books, so that was good. I was amazed at how much they took – I made eighty dollars selling books! ($75 after paying $5 for parking.) They took my complete New Jedi Order series, which is unusual – you’d think they’d have enough Star Wars books. They turned down a few paperbacks due to damage – creased covers and such (My copy of Shadows of the Empire<\/i><\/a> is pretty well-loved). All in all, I did much better than I expected.<\/p>\n

We’ll see how I fare selling textbooks on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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