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The South Bank Book Market, London, England. Used books typically become available on the market when they are sold or given to a second-hand shop, church used book sale or used bookstore; they are usually sold for about half or three-quarters the price of what they would cost new, though rare books and others still in demand or hard to obtain might sell for more than this.
Used bookstores (usually called "second-hand bookshops" in Great Britain [1]) buy and sell used books and out-of-print books. A range of titles is available in used bookstores, including in print and out-of-print books. Book collectors tend to frequent used book stores. Large online bookstores offer used books for sale, too.
As new means that the book is in the state that it should have been in when it left the publisher. This is the equivalent of mint condition in numismatics. Fine (F or FN) is "as new" but allowing for the normal effects of time on an unused book that has been protected. A fine book shows no damage. Very good (VG) describes a book that is worn ...
Print Culture and Peripheries in Early Modern Europe: A Contribution to the History of Printing and the Book Trade in Small European and Spanish Cities. Brill. ISBN 9789004235748. William Noblett (2014). "Samuel Paterson and the London Auction Market for Second-Hand Books, 1755–1802". Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. 108.
AbeBooks (/ ˈ eɪ b. b ʊ k s / AYB-buuks [1]) is an e-commerce global online marketplace with seven websites that offer books, fine art, and collectables from sellers in over 50 countries. Launched in 1996, it specialises in used, rare and out-of-print books.
World of Books Group Limited is an online second-hand book retailer, trading under the names Wob, Ziffit, and Shopiago, [1] reported to be the United Kingdom's largest. [2] The company buys unsold inventory of used books mostly from UK charity shops.
Initially for second-hand and vintage items, it became of the largest sites for advertising pets, horses and livestock. In 2012, it was ranked 2nd in the UK for classified ads by Hitwise. [3] In 2013, it recorded over 1.1 billion page views on its advert pages. [4] As of 2014, Preloved was the largest independent classified ads site in the UK. [3]
Whereas the shop used to sell second-hand and new books side by side on the same shelves, it now primarily sells books in print, like other large chain bookshops, but with a notably larger range of titles on every subject. It also now sells second-hand and out-of-print books together with new books in its art, history and archaeology departments.