After quite a while resting on my more or less laurels (past listings) it's time to get a move on and put up some more listings. My goal is five books every day from now on. This should be achievable, but not according to my past performance.

These books get listed in three places: on Amazon, Biblio, and Half. Books without ISBNs (older books) generally will not be listed on half. My prices might vary between these three places. Amazon and Half tell me competing prices, so I peg mine on them. Thus, if the lowest price for Deadly Percheron is $98 on Amazon, I might peg mine at $95. If it weren't my only copy maybe I'd be more reasonable. In fact, I think my Biblio listing is more reasonable.

Going forward (and possibly backward), links to titles of books will send you to the main Amazon listing. My listing will be somewhere amidst the other maybe 237 listings. This is where my photo of the book can be seen, which will probably be a better one than the one Amazon features. Half doesn't let me attach my own photo—at least I don't think it does. Photos are also at biblio. Lots of older listings still don't have photos. Nor updated prices.

I've been lousy at selling direct via email. Sorry about that, if you've tried me. Listing through the major portals keeps me honest—also prompt and reliable.

Monday, January 31, 2005

01/31/05 MON:
---A few used books catalogued today:
hardcovers:
Davis, Gwen THE PRINCESS AN D THE PAUPER, Little Brown '89, 1st edn, (An Erotic Fairy Tale), vg-f in dj $8
Jordan, Robert CROSSROADS OF TWILIGHT, Tor, 1/03, 1st edn, (Wheel of Time #10), g in dj 8.00
Kerr, Philip THE GRID, Warner, 4/96, 1st US, (brainy thriller), remainder mark, vg+ in dj 5.00
Lansdale, Joe R. FREEZER BURN, Mysterious, 9/99, 1st trade, (sizzling novel), vg-f in dj 10.00
Patchett, Ann TAFT, Houghton Mifflin '94, 1st, (novel about black musician), vg-f/dj $6
Podrug, Junius PRESUMED GUILTY, Forge, 9/97, 1st edn, (wild, rocketing thriller), vg-f in g-vg dj (label removal) 5.00
Rice, Anne BLOOD AND GOLD, Knopf '01, 1st edn, (Vampire Chronicles), vg-f in dj 10.00
Stirling, S.M. T2: The Future War, HarperCollins '03, 1st edn, based on the (motion-picture world), vg-f in dj $10
misc. softcovers:
Burdick, Eugene & Harvey Wheeler FAIL-SAFE, Ecco, 2nd, (soon to be a CBS-TV Live Movie Event Starring George Clooney), remainder mark, vg+ 3.00
Cussler, Clive & Craig Dirgo GOLDEN BUDDHA, Berkley, 2nd, (Oregon Files #1; Clive Cussler has no equal--certainly not Craig Dirgo, whose name appears in much smaller print on the cover), vg $5

paperbacks:
Berkley 19545 Cussler, Clive WHITE DEATH, 9/4, (a novel from the Numa files; spine-tingling adventure on the high seas), vg+ 2.00
Warner 60400 Graziunas, Daina & Jim Starlin PREDATORS, 7/97, (thriller; =Thinning the Predators; soon to be a major motion picture), vg 2.00
Tor 34741 Hagberg, David TERMINATOR 3: Rise of the Machines, 7/03, (novelization), vg 2.50
HarperTorch 05754 Lawhead, Stephen R. BYZANTIUM, 8th, (historical nove; 870 pgs), vg 2.50

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