| This seems hard to believe, but because of the rising | | | | store actually feeds off Borders and Barns & |
| prices of gas, food, and the cost of entertainment, | | | | Noble. With new product being sold, there is a |
| used book stores are in need of quality items. | | | | greater circulation of used material that eventually |
| Borders has announced that they are changing their | | | | reaches used stores. |
| in-store marketing from shelving books like a library | | | | Book scouts who buy books and sell to used stores |
| and are going to face out their books. | | | | always have a good selection to choose from. |
| When you combine this with the announcement that | | | | Customers know this and will wait for selected books |
| Borders is up for sale, then you realize the problems | | | | to appear. In some cases this surge of buying at |
| major retailers are having. | | | | used bookstores produces a more selective and |
| Why is this? Because more and more people are | | | | overall better quality of books to choose from. This |
| buying used books. This has put a tremendous strain | | | | is because more and more people are bringing books |
| on the used stores to find more product. Actually, | | | | into the stores to sell. The sharp scout racks up a |
| Book Scouts are need to help locate more books for | | | | small fortune as they have been trained to buy and |
| used stores. With proper training anybody can do | | | | sell to used stores for a profit. |
| this. | | | | Everybody wins. The book scout makes a profit, the |
| Not every community is lucky enough to have a | | | | book seller has more books and a higher quality of |
| Borders or Barns & Noble. Owning a used book | | | | books, and the customer has a better selection of |
| store near one of these major chain stores in a | | | | book reading and can purchase far more books the |
| tremendous boast for any used store. New books | | | | he could at "new" book sellers. |
| are the future stock of used book stores. The used | | | | |