Small sellers get the Amazon.com edge

The Seattle Times
Business & Technology
By Monica Soto Ouchi
Seattle Times technology reporter
"'You're going to pick up a book that's going for pennies at a resale shop and come to find out that it's worth $100,' he said. 'We call that the buried treasure and the gems. It's a lot like mining for gold.'
...Thrift Book's best-selling titles are "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen Covey and "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" by John Gray. Both sell within 48 hours from the time they're listed.
The titles that sit on the shelves the longest: mass-market paperback books. Titles from authors such as John Grisham and Tom Clancy usually go for a penny."

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