# Biblio? Selling there? Yes/no

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblio-selling-there-yes-no/940378>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 20, 2021, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblio-selling-there-yes-no/940378 "2021-04-20T13:07:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblio-selling-there-yes-no/940378/1 "2021-04-20T13:07:32Z")

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I’m fed up with Amazon.

I’m thinking of migrating to Biblio.  
**Any Doper who was sold books on Biblio, please weigh in.**

_Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblio-selling-there-yes-no/940378/1))_

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblio-selling-there-yes-no/940378/2 "2021-04-21T00:19:44Z")

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Buler?

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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblio-selling-there-yes-no/940378/3 "2021-04-21T00:35:12Z")

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I’ve never sold anything there, but every Christmas I buy pre-WW II economics and marketing books for my daughter on Biblio, and always have had success. I’d never find them if I had to search bookstore websites. And for what I’m looking for, it beats the hell out of Amazon.

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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblio-selling-there-yes-no/940378/4 "2021-04-21T03:16:18Z")

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Obviously quite a niche market!

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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblio-selling-there-yes-no/940378/5 "2021-04-21T06:32:47Z")

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That’s what Biblio is good for. It’s always fun to come up with books about how prosperity for the next decade is guaranteed, especially when they are published in 1928.

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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblio-selling-there-yes-no/940378/6 "2021-04-21T19:56:23Z")

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There is no substitute for history books that were written at the time the event happened. That’s what I have to tell people I volunteer with at the library, who want to discard “old” history books. No, they don’t fly off the shelf the way the newer ones do, but c’mon. When someone sees them who wants them, they snap them up, especially for 50 cents each.

And we do get good money on our Amazon account for some of them, too.