In an effort to boost the still small swapping market, new entrants such as Whatsonmybookshelf.com, SwapSimple.com and BookMooch.com are focusing their efforts almost entirely on books, primarily because they are easy to ship and have scant resale value.
How are these sites any different to Amazon or Ebay or even used book-stores? The reason - they offer a better deal.
So what's the catch then? - these sites lack variety. Some sites such as Swapsimple are heavy on textbooks - fine if want textbooks (and actually find the one you are looking for), but what if you want Daniel Steele? Then you should go to Whatsonmybookshelf.
It will be interesting to see which site, if any, manages to become the most popular. Maybe there will be niche sites that develop selling only particular types of books.....
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