Used But Not Discarded At the BISG’s annual meeting today, the marquee event was the presentation of summary data from their Used Book Study (the full study is still being prepared, and will not be released until next month). The best part of the study, conducted by market research firm InfoTrends and presented by Jeffrey Hayes, was sealed from the beginning: Hard data was gathered from essentially all of the major players in this emerging business: Amazon, eBay, Abebooks, Alibris, Barnes & Noble, Biblio, Powell’s and others, combined with surveys of booksellers, industry groups, and consumers. The broad strokes didn’t […]
