The NYT looks at year-and-a-half old book swapping site BookMooch, while admitting it is just one of many such sites (including SwapTree.com, TitleTrader.com, SF-Books.com, and Book Exchange Network). The site claims 40,000 members who trade books with each other. Though site rules encourage the listing of lots of titles--so they claim a database of 750,000 offerings--what "moves well" is popular titles. And for members who don't want to wait for a desired title to become available for free, founder John Buckman says, "We sell about $30,000 worth of books for Amazon every month."
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im surprised they didnt talk about www.swaptree.com more, it actaully is really cool.
ReplyDeleteHeres a great video of how www.swaptree.com works:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbCdhbXdsik