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Good (G) describes the condition of an average used worn book that is complete. Any defects must be noted. Fair shows wear and tear but all the text pages and illustrations or maps are present. It may lack endpapers, half-title, and even the title page. All defects must be noted.
Biblio was founded in 2000 as a rare book metasearch service, and in 2003 launched its own book marketplace website, Biblio.com, which is the primary product of the company. [3] Since 2003, Biblio has sold over 7.5 million books, including new and used titles.
ThriftBooks was founded in the summer of 2003 by Daryl Butcher and Jason Meyer. The two created software that organizes and lists thousands of book titles per day. [6] Since 2004, it has partnered with libraries, which provide unsorted books and get a share of the profits.
A reading copy of a book may be well-used, may include highlighting, marginalia, dedications, [6] and is suitable for reading, but is not collectible. This is a term used in the used book business, to indicate the lack of collectible value, while claiming that the book is in sufficiently good condition for a purchaser whose interest is primarily in actually reading the book.
founded 2004, bought by Amazon.com 2011, offered free shipping for books to addresses worldwide: Closed in April 2023 Book People United Kingdom: Retail and online: was a discount bookseller based in Godalming, Surrey, United Kingdom. It also sold in workplaces and schools via a nationwide network of Book People Local distributors. (Bankrupt)
Martin Manley founded Alibris in 1997 with the team behind early online book marketplace Interloc, which Alibris purchased. [3] Interloc was founded by book seller Richard Weatherford, programmer Tom Sawyer and computer tech Brad Councilman in 1994.
Northern New York Library Network, overlapping some of Old Fulton's content but smaller (about 2,000,000 pages) and providing a different search interface. Papers Past – Digitization project of the National Library of New Zealand; over 2,000,000 New Zealand newspaper pages.
A store of used books in Madrid A second-hand book store in the United States. 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.