# Finding and selling used books on Amazon.com

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 25, 2015, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-and-selling-used-books-on-amazon-com/713587 "2015-02-25T17:13:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-and-selling-used-books-on-amazon-com/713587/1 "2015-02-25T17:13:08Z")

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I am selling used books on [amazon.com](http://amazon.com) and have the following question, if any other Amazon sellers here can help (I just spoke to an Amazon phone CSR who could not comprehend the situation).

For a book I want to sell, I will search for it by title on [amazon.com](http://amazon.com) to find the appropriate listing under which I want to list mine. My assumption is that a potential buyer is usually searching for a particular book in the same way, by title, and I want to be sure they will find mine. Often there are multiple listings for the same book (for example, different printings in different years). I may or may not find an exact match (year, cover art, etc.) for the book I am selling. Then in another [amazon.com](http://amazon.com) browser tab, side by side, I look up the same book by its ISBN and many times I will get an exactly matching listing for the book I want to sell but that listing did not appear when searching by title. My further assumption/concern being that if I use this listing, potential buyers will not find it if/when they search for the book by title, since I did not. Any idea what’s going on here? Thanks.