Thanks Jerry, Gary and Michael for the book-links. My own pitiful stock of books comes mostly from the *International* in Melbourne, but it closed years ago. If anyone knows of good used book stores anywhere in Australia, please tell me. Exile down under ------------------ > (The following post is dedicated to Claus G) joke from a few >years ago: Where do you find the Marxist when s/he is not at a >demonstration or at a political meeting? At a used bookstore, of >course. Living in New York City, a favorite pastime of mine has been >scrounging through dusty old bookstores. I often had the feeling that I >was in search of buried treasure. When members of this list come to NYC, >they invariably want to go to used book stores -- which are often unknown >or very rare in the area of the world that they come from. This is >beginning to change, thanks to the Internet. To begin with, many long >out-of-print books are now being published on the Net and one can >download those books for FREE. (Of course, if one wants "hard copy" then >there is a cost to Sometimes, with "shareware", the authors ask for a >nominal contribution. This has already changed the publishing industry >and can be expected to continue to change the way Instead of going to >university and public libraries, scholars will increasingly be doing >research through their own computers and the Internet. Small publishers >of scholarly journals could very well be adversely affected by these >developments -- especially given the cost of those journals. Yet, many >scholarly journals are now being And, of course, forums such as OPE-L, >accessible provide a source for research for students and scholars that >was unavailable not so long ago. Most of us, though, are still "old >dogs" who like Who among us does not have a considerable part of their >living space devoted to bookcases? Here, again, the Internet is changing >how we do things. One can be able to look for used books or in-print >books on sale at sites such as: http://www.addall.com >http://www.bookfinder.com http://www.bibliofind.com >http://www.booksold.com http://www.half.com >http://www.barnesandnoble.com Does anyone else have any good sites for >locating books which are used or on-sale? Of course, locating books on >the Net isn't the On the one hand, it is more socially isolating than >the social event of going to a bookstore (this social side of book >collecting is well known to the booksellers themselves and in & shops >On the other hand, it does take less time to shop on-line, especially >since it eliminates transportation time to the bookstore, and it is >available to people world-wide. If you look hard enough you can even find >some bargains. Indeed, I recently bought some books on-line that in years >of searching I had never been Bookworms of the 21st Century rejoice! >In solidarity, Jerry ---------------------------------- Nicola Mostyn (Taylor) Faculty of Economics Murdoch University Australia Telephone: 61-8-9385 1130
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