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Originally Posted by Katsunami
If I understand DuskyRose's post correctly, it's not about the credit when trading on that site: it's about "a book for a book" trading. You seem to only pay shipping costs, and get the book essentially for free.
Therefore, if you can trade away 20 books of your own (all at once, for convenience, if at all possible), and acquire 20 others, preferably from the same seller to combine shipment costs, then you will have new stuff to read for a very low price.
It seems that the traders are not after profit, but after the possibility to constantly get new material for next to nothing.
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Correct.
I not only can get stuff on-line trading a lot cheaper than my UBS, the selection is better. Beats the Amazon 1cent books by a couple of dollars if you do it right, just by consolidating the postage on orders.
Of course, you can get cheaper at some thrift stores and library sales, but frankly if your area isn't fond of your favorite genres, they don't buy them new so they don't show up at thrift stores or garage sales. You'd be waiting forever.
So, yeah, it matters to a lot of people that they can trade out pbooks for other pbooks. For them, many of the ebooks they'd like are priced too high for them to spend the money, when the paper books will keep them in the trading loop and save them in the long-term.
So they stick to freebies or really cheap ebooks, and stay with paper otherwise.