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A high-tech success story for a low-tech product: used books

The highly-competitive and often floundering bookselling industry has one bright spot, used book sales, which have grown over 20 percent since 1993

By David Mehegan  /  NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , NEW YORK

White maintains that when store owners put a portion of their titles online, there's no incentive for customers to visit them to find out what other good books they might have. He might have a book that you can't find online.

"It works for me," he says. "I can sell a book for US$5, not US$15 with the packing and mailing cost, and I don't have to have a huge shipping department."

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