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eBay BooksA couple of years ago, Carol Clifton, one of our book room volunteers, noticed boxes set aside for non-sale distribution or discarding contained what looked like brand new hardcover and paperback books. Most of these were romance novels, because during the thirty-one year history of the sale, no one had ever discovered a way to make romance a profitable part of the operation. She investigated the steady stream of romance auctions on eBay for six months. She learned from another book room volunteer whose aunt writes romances that publishers usually keep new romance books on the shelves for an average of only three months. Thus many fans of romance wanting to read everything a favorite writer has published must go to second hand sources. Enter eBay romance seller "luv4salebooks," a.k.a. Carol Clifton for the Multnomah County Friends of the Library. This eBay enterprise continues to raise a substantial amount of money for the Friends, but the process of sorting, writing auctions, photographing and shipping the boxes is labor intensive. Additional volunteers would be helpful to meet the current goal of having an auction every other week. If you have a desire to delve into boxes of romances, to help sort them, to photograph them, to write auctions, to develop additional expertise as to their potential worth online, or to get the auctioned boxes ready for mailing, our Friends Book Room Manager, Angelita Surmon, would love to hear from you. You can use our handy online volunteer form to start the process of volunteering. top
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