At 09:14 AM 7/7/97 -0500, Neil Rest wrote:
>So for a while, I've been wondering about suggesting to this list some sort
>of book-exchange or shopping-service arrangement. I have no particular
>organizational details in mind, more general friendly functionality.
I will be putting together a book-exchange/shopping service page for this
website, which will include:
1) a list of [independent] booksellers for used, rare & out-of-print sf
books and how to contact them;
2) a list of willing acquisitions contacts & whether they want exchange or
money (and in what currency); and
3) a list of "titles wanted" (specify hardback or paperback and publishing
info if you have it), with contact info and price range you're willing to
pay, and/or exchange you're willing to make.
4) a list of "titles available" (hb or pb, edition, condition, publishing
info), with contact info and price and/or exhannge you want.
Elizabeth Pandolfo has volunteered be to an acquisition contact for British
books, Laura Quilter for the U.S. mid-West. I have a friend, Mary Tuttle,
who is a book scout here in the U.S. Rocky Mt. region. How about a U.S.
east-coast and U.S. west-coast contact? And are any of you Canadians,
Australians, other Europeans willing to be acquisitions contacts (search
for, procure, and ship books from your area) for love or money? I think
that there should be at least a 10% fee for scouting/acquisitions of rare
books.
Please send to me, via personal e-mail, any additional suggestions and info
you'd like included on this page (names and contact info for bookstores,
your contact info as an acquisitions rep, titles and publishing info for
books you're looking for along with a price range you're willing to pay,
esp. for rare/out-of-print books). My address is hollyy@sprynet.com. PLEASE
PUT *FEM-SF BOOK EXCHANGE/SHOPPING* IN THE SUBJECT LINE.
This is going to be an "honor-system" good-faith exchange, so don't ask for
titles you're not really willing to pay for. Otherwise our aquisitions
contacts may get burned [out], ok?
Hope to hear from you-all soon.
Holly
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