1) A desire by some to curtail the profiteers and assure that there are some good books left when the sale opens to the general public.
Certainly, this hinders the online bookseller and limits the number of books that he/she is able to check, but I do not think this is the reason.
2) Another hypothesis I have heard is that booksellers rummaging through the books and scanning them leave the unwanted books in disarray, thus making more work for the volunteers to straighten out the mess, but I do not think this is the reason either.
The time it takes to straighten out tables of books after a couple hundred booksellers have finished rummaging around is probably not any longer than straightening out after a few thousand people during the "open to the public" period.
3) There are also some that believe the cashiers do not like ringing up hundreds of books for booksellers,
This does not make any sense because it is a lot easier to make one sale of hundreds of books to one buyer than to ring up two books for hundreds of customers, so I do not think this is the reason.
4) The volunteers and helpers at the book sales are jealous of booksellers coming in and buying up all the good books to make a profit on them.
I do not doubt that there a people working the book sales and attending them that are jealous of dealers coming in and buying up the valuable books, and this probably does play into the decision to ban scanners, but I do not think it is the primary reason either.
I believe the book sale organizers are genuinely concerned about safety and potential litigation. If you have ever been zapped in the eyes by a careless bookseller with a total disregard for where he/she is pointing their scanner, you know exactly what I mean. You will see spots and/or floaters for a good half hour. If exposed to a direct laser of the intensity of my HP 5P (class II) scanner, I do not doubt that you would suffer some permanent eye damage.
I was personally zapped accidentally by someone using their laser scanner and I could not read ISBN's or the screen on my PDA for almost 45 minutes. I believe laser scanners are being banned from book sales because of liability issues; and with our society being so focused on taking someone to court; the book sale organizers do not want to risk being held responsible for the actions of a careless bookseller. As obnoxious as some of the booksellers I have seen can be, I would not put it past some of them to intentionally zap me if for no other reason than to temporarily give them an edge in buying while my eyes recover.
Second Hand Book Sales
Whether you are writing an e-Book or a traditional paper-and-ink type book, you should know that most people go about the process entirely wrong. Here is a typical scenario.
A person writes a book; let's say it is an e-Book. They then set up a web page and hope that through some miracle potential customers find that site and make some purchases. Gads that is one scary scenario. The whole thing is completely wrong.
Let's try something a little different. Let's begin by designing a web page (before we write our book). We check out competitors sites and make a list of the very best features we find on each one. What kinds of headlines catch our attention? What colors for text look best? What artwork and graphics look the best? How many images do they use (graphics take time to load and you don't want your site laden with huge graphics or visitors will leave waiting for them to load).for more details visit www.ebook-marketing-exposed.com
What kind of guarantee to them gives? What is their price? What kinds of buzz-words do they incorporate into their sales page? What width do they set their pages up for? (You don't want to have visitors having to scroll from left to right to view your page.) What fonts do they use? Now you sit down with a pencil and paper and make a rough outline of your web page. While you don't copy anyone else's web site, you do incorporate general ideas you pick up from each one. You must write the very best sales letter for your site that you can. You must ask yourself, not what do you want to see on your site--but what do your visitors want to see. What benefits are they looking for? What skills or knowledge will they hope to obtain from purchasing your product? What are their hopes and dreams related to the topic of the book you are writing? You make promises for your product that you think your visitors will want to find in your product, your e-Book. (And remember, you haven't even written the book yet!) And then, and only after you have developed what you consider to be the perfect pitch page for your e-Book--you go ahead and write your book you can visit www.ebook-creation-toolkit.com
You see, your pitch page becomes a blueprint telling you exactly what content you must pour into your book to give readers what you promised them on your site. I call this my "reverse engineering" technique, because you essentially work in exactly the reverse manner most writers do. You design your sales page first--and then you write your book using that sales page as a guide telling you what your book must contain. This works; I've used it over fifty times myself. Mike McMillan is a former inner-city teacher who left teaching in 1989 to devote full time to writing over 40 nonfiction books and e-Books. He has been interviewed on over 80 radio stations and televisions programs including ABC World News on the topic of self publishing. Mike's on-line self publishing course is offered through over 1,400 colleges and universities across the U.S. His newest e-Books include Big Money Writing Little Books, and Cleaning out the Vault: Secrets of the e-Book Power Sellers Exposed.
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