My experience with used book stores lately is the opposite of many other comments here.
It’s hard to find anything that’s not books 2 through the penultimate book of a airport novel trade paperback at my local second-hand book store. There is a bit of a “no one goes there anymore, it’s too crowded” feeling.
Because of how easy it is to look up the going rate for a used book online these days, a lot of books go straight to eBay/Amazon and don’t even make it to the store. Those that make it to the store are set aside to be sold online and don’t make it to the shelves. Those that make it to the shelves are almost immediately bought if there is any interest in them at all before you even make it to the store. The end result is that the books on the shelves are the books no one wants and you probably won’t either.
The same thing has been happening with used video games where the only games on the shelves are old versions of yearly licensed sports games.
> It’s hard to find anything that’s not books 2 through the penultimate book of a airport novel trade paperback at my local second-hand book store. There is a bit of a “no one goes there anymore, it’s too crowded” feeling.
To be entirely fair, that has been my experience at typical new book stores, too. I don't know how many times I've gone into a B&N or Borders to find books 2, 3, 5, and 8 of some series.
It’s hard to find anything that’s not books 2 through the penultimate book of a airport novel trade paperback at my local second-hand book store. There is a bit of a “no one goes there anymore, it’s too crowded” feeling.
Because of how easy it is to look up the going rate for a used book online these days, a lot of books go straight to eBay/Amazon and don’t even make it to the store. Those that make it to the store are set aside to be sold online and don’t make it to the shelves. Those that make it to the shelves are almost immediately bought if there is any interest in them at all before you even make it to the store. The end result is that the books on the shelves are the books no one wants and you probably won’t either.
The same thing has been happening with used video games where the only games on the shelves are old versions of yearly licensed sports games.