''Pottermania'' Ignites the Secondhand Book Market and Helps Used Booksellers Profit, Reports Abebooks.Business & Lifestyle Editors VICTORIA, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 9, 2003 Used Book Sellers Profit from Brisk Brisk as a proper name may refer to:
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Previously read copies of Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling are boosting sales for the secondhand book market and helping small, used book sellers profit from Pottermania, reports Abebooks.com, the world's largest online marketplace for used, rare and out-of-print books. "Sales for used copies of Harry Potter books rose 300% in June," reports Marci Crossan, Abebooks spokesperson. "Our booksellers tell us people want the whole series and are scooping up used copies online. Even the new book -- 'The Order of the Phoenix' -- is available used at Abebooks.com, as are rare signed editions, versions in Latin, Spanish, large print, and audiobook." This is positive news for collectors and people with signed Rowling books. Signed first editions are selling for between $200 and $1.2 million on Abebooks.com. Many booksellers believe prices will rise. Doug Phillips, at Printers Row Fine & Rare Books in Chicago has advice for anyone with a signed copy: "Hang on tight! Prices will appreciate for books like 'The Philosopher's Stone' which only had 350 US hardback first editions printed. We call that 'a collection breaker breaker: see wave, in oceanography. .' Any Potter enthusiast A person who enjoys using computers and electronic equipment. Enthusiasts like technology and are willing to learn more of the ins and outs of a product than the average consumer, who just wants to use it. An enthusiast is more like a "prosumer." See consumer and prosumer. wants the first book and there's only going to be 350 lucky people who get it." Harry Potter books listed on Abebooks.com (as of July 9, 2003) -- Number of used JK Rowling books on Abebooks.com: 3889 -- Most expensive Potter: $1.2 million for a signed galley proof galley proof n. Printing A proof taken from composed type before page composition to allow for the detection and correction of errors. Noun 1. of "The Prisoner of Azkaban" (Cheviot Books, England) -- Cheapest Potter: .45 for paperback "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" (Pyramid pyramid, structure pyramid. The true pyramid exists only in Egypt, though the term has also been applied to similar structures in other countries. Egyptian pyramids are square in plan and their triangular sides, which directly face the points of the Books, New Jersey) -- Potter books in different languages on Abebooks.com -- Latin: Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis -- French: Harry Potter et la chambre des secrets -- Turkish: Harry Potter ve Sirlar Odasi -- Spanish: Harry Potter e a camara secreta secreta /se·cre·ta/ (se-kre´tah) [L., pl.] secretion (2). se·cre·ta n. Substances secreted by a cell, a tissue, or an organ; the products of secretion. secreta [L. About Abebooks Abebooks is the world's largest online marketplace for used, rare, and out-of-print books with 45 million books listed by 11,000 booksellers in 42 countries. Abebooks has websites in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. (Abebooks.com), the UK (Abebooks.co.uk), France (Abebooks.fr), and Germany (Abebooks.de). Through partnerships with Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and eBay, Abebooks has become the most important virtual supplier of used books while expanding selling avenues for booksellers. |
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