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There's an interesting ecosystem around weeding. Many libraries send weeded books to Better World Books, which is a major used bookseller. If BWB don't want the
by greglindahl 11y ago
There's an interesting ecosystem around weeding. Many libraries send weeded books to Better World Books, which is a major used bookseller. If BWB don't want the books, then they pass them along to organizations like the Internet Archive, which scans them & then loans 1 electronic copy for each physical copy.
Better World Books averages 1 container of incoming books per day.
- dingaling 11y agoInteresting, presumably BWB have a team of inbound screeners that make a decision on how to route each book? I've only dealy with them as a customer, they're not good at packaging books for posting but if most of their stock is old penny-books then presumably they're trying to make margin on the Amazon postal charge.
- greglindahl 11y agoBWB has some fancy software that figures out if they're likely to sell a given book soon enough to make it worth having in the warehouse. I've bought several non-penny-books from them, never had a problem with packaging, either.