After quite a while resting on my more or less laurels (past listings) it's time to get a move on and put up some more listings. My goal is five books every day from now on. This should be achievable, but not according to my past performance.

These books get listed in three places: on Amazon, Biblio, and Half. Books without ISBNs (older books) generally will not be listed on half. My prices might vary between these three places. Amazon and Half tell me competing prices, so I peg mine on them. Thus, if the lowest price for Deadly Percheron is $98 on Amazon, I might peg mine at $95. If it weren't my only copy maybe I'd be more reasonable. In fact, I think my Biblio listing is more reasonable.

Going forward (and possibly backward), links to titles of books will send you to the main Amazon listing. My listing will be somewhere amidst the other maybe 237 listings. This is where my photo of the book can be seen, which will probably be a better one than the one Amazon features. Half doesn't let me attach my own photo—at least I don't think it does. Photos are also at biblio. Lots of older listings still don't have photos. Nor updated prices.

I've been lousy at selling direct via email. Sorry about that, if you've tried me. Listing through the major portals keeps me honest—also prompt and reliable.

Thursday, November 8, 2007

pbs by publisher

The paperbacks-by-publisher file proved too large to upload to Google Documents, so maybe I will try splitting it in two. The hardcovers and "misc. softcovers" were close to the limit as well, but maybe the size limit for saving will have increased by the time I get that much added -- which at the rate I am going might well be never.

Okay! The half-way point proved to be about through Del Rey in the paperbacks, so now I have up:
This document is published on the web.
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Published on November 8, 2007 6:51 PM

Which leaves Dell to Z:
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Published on November 8, 2007 6:58 PM
---I'm sure there will still be some things to fool around with -- and it might not be so great not using a database program any more, but having everything googleable now might be pretty slick.

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