Does Alibris sell used books online?”
Alibris recently launched “Author Stores.” prnewswire.com has the announcement: Alibris Empowers Authors to Promote and Sell More Books Online marketplace launches Author Stores as direct-sales channels for academic, mainstream, and self-published authors EMERYVILLE, Calif., May 24 /PRNewswire/ — Alibris announced today that its marketplace for new and used books has been enhanced in order to give authors and publishers direct access to millions of book-buying shoppers. Newly launched Author Stores empower self-published and mainstream authors, academics, and other writers — as well as their publishers — to easily promote and sell their books and other publications through the world’s largest online sales network. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090511/ALIBRISLOGO) Author Stores give publishers of all kinds a new, unparalleled distrib
Bookselling has always had an aura about it that many people find attractive. The sellers, variously stereotyped as garrulous old scholars, frustrated writers, postgraduate bookworms or gentlemanly ‘Hugh Grant types,’ are purveying a respected product. This image, and the sheer love of books, has compelled people into the bookselling trade since the invention of moveable type. Simultaneously, many others, including the barely literate, are attracted to bookselling by its mathematics. Few commodities, particularly among collectibles, can be found so readily and converted into a profit as easily as books. In the past, many people fulfilled a dream and opened brick and mortar bookstores only to find they could not pay the rent with walk-in traffic, or were squeezed out of business by chain stores such as Barnes and Noble and Borders. With the advent of online bookselling, all that has changed. Droves of brick and mortar bookstores have sprung up in obscure backwaters and are able to suppo
