I think Amazon owns Alibris now and is operating it as a subsidiary.

As for Goodwill, yeah, and they’re wreaking havoc on independent used booksellers, many of which sell on Amazon to supplement their sales by other means. They can’t compete with Goodwill since they get all their stuff for free. I don’t know if they’ve actually put anyone out of business by deflating the price of books, but they’ve certainly hurt a lot of bottom lines. For a place that constantly advertises being a store with a conscience, I don’t think it’s a good thing to be doing. It gives people one less career option in a sour economy.

I think it would have bothered me a whole lot more if it had happened in 2000 or 2001. And I guess going over to Amazon and seeing what used copies sell for picked me up a little bit, too. When I looked at other books published around the same time as mine, they were selling for a penny. Not that $2 is much, but now that Goodwill has decided it wants to be the country’s largest used bookseller, it’s difficult for any used book to stay above the $2 price point for long.