Collector’s edition, limited edition, or rare? If you’re new to buying or selling collectible books, things often become confusing. These are answers to the 7 most frequently asked questions about collector’s edition books.
Have you ever completed a book but felt you still had unfinished business with it? Yeah, we’ve all been there. But, here’s when things get better because today, we’ll introduce something special. We’re here to tell you all you need to know about special edition books.
So, what are special edition books? Where can you get them? Read on as we answer these questions, and as the main course, we’ll serve you with the 6 best special editions of books to get started.
Rare and antique books can be collectible items if they are in good condition and in demand, but it can be hard to determine whether your books are valuable and, if they are, where to sell them to get the best price for your items. Rare and antique book buyers often frequent certain web pages and auction sites in the hopes to find themselves a special edition. Whether you are selling old classics, rare cookbooks, or a signed first edition, we have a few tips and tricks to help you out.
Whether you have grand old hardcover books or first edition classics, it is important to know their value so that you can both correctly insure them or sell them. Old books can be very valuable, if in a good condition. If you wonder, ‘what to do with your old books’ or ‘where can I sell my books?‘, Bookscouter has the answer.
Don’t you wish you could have access to a huge catalogue of free books, right at your fingertips?
When you’re as big of a bookworm as we are, you know that reading can quickly become an expensive hobby. Buying a new book every time you’re ready for a new tale is not financially sustainable, especially if you prefer hardbacks. Even second-hand books can become a strain on your wallet and cost you a pretty penny. And it’s absolutely obvious that people strive to find reliable ways to reduce costs at least to certain extent. Some of the great solutions here can become scholarships for books and sites with free books.
It’s impossible to carry out quality research without access to academic works and the most recent news from the scientific community. However, if you’re an independent researcher without direct affiliation to a public institution and access to such resources as JSTOR or Elsevier, or if you are a fellow researcher or a student but your university doesn’t provide access to the aforementioned resources—what are you to do?
Certain publishers, especially big publishers, have rights to most scholarly works, and access to this information costs a lot. Therefore, many research articles stay unavailable to researchers and scholars. It’s true that open-access journals have been on the rise recently; however, as a matter of fact, a large proportion of them can’t be truly categorized as open-access. So to answer the earlier question: those who need access to paid research content have to find alternative ways to get what they need: free textbooks online or shadow libraries.
The major news hit the industry in December: Amazon has decided to end its print textbook rentals for good. As an industry participant, we at BookScouter decided to share our thoughts on the subject.
As of Dec 14, 2022, Amazon, which offered a flexible and affordable way to get access to physical and digital textbooks for more than a decade, has recently announced the discontinuation of its print textbook rental program and coming changes to its print and digital magazine and newspaper subscriptions.
Everyone knows what a textbook is; everyone had a pile of various textbooks while they were at school and in college. However, we were so busy studying to even wonder who the author of the first calculus textbook was and when the first geography textbook was published. Because, well, who cares? Yet, we got curious now and decided to find out more about the first textbooks and their authors. In this blog post, we’re answering the most popular questions about first-ever published textbooks.
Each year, writers and book lovers alike look forward to the unveiling of the National Book Awards winners, presented by the National Book Foundation.
This year was no different, as 2022 was a big year for books. The award finalists were revealed in October—five finalists in each category—before the winners were announced in a live awards ceremony on November 16, hosted by New York Times bestselling author and producer of Hulu’s celebrated docuseries Taste the Nation, Padma Lakshmi.