Sunday Night At Our On-Line Bookstore
We moved all of our items this week on eBay from "Store Inventory" to Fixed Price items. eBay has decided that eliminating the Store Inventory category will be more efficient for both themselves and for sellers. I remember a visiting eBayer some time back when I explained that store items were sometimes less expensive than auction items of equivalent value, and could be purchased on the spot, gave me a kind of stare and said "I don't know what those are". If you are an experienced eBayer, you might know that buying something from Store Inventory without waiting is can be less expensive than waiting for an auction item. But then again, since they are often placed in their own section at the bottom of a long list of similar items, you might not know they are even there.
So from personal experience I know that the change is sort of like the movement among gasoline sellers to get rid of one of the octane ratings and just have your basic Unleaded and your Premium octane ratings, in other words, consolidate and reduce options.
These items listed below are our most recent books, from a software utility will point you to the corresponding listing on eBay. Using the title, they can also be found at My-Lynx Associates, which is our own web site, also Amazon, depending on any listing restrictions. They may also be found, though not as likely on Half.Com, A1Books, AbeBooks, Alibris, Biblio and so on. The links are provided on the right. The little grid below links directly to the eBay "Buy It Now" auction items. We say for the others "not as likely" because they have a different catalog of books and this makes them less likely than eBay, My-Lynx and Amazon to have the corresponding entry for some of the rarer or out of print items.
One of our rarest items in the list is in Spanish, Vocabulario Español de Texas, about the regional use of Spanish in Texas and how it differs from other versions/dialects of Spanish in other countries. Since Texas was originally part of Spain, and then Mexico, it has a long and unique history that blends the border divisions and creates a unique way of looking at things that is different from either the United States or Mexico. It was originally published in the early 50's as part of a larger scholarly set of studies. This is a 60s book, long out of print. It would be of interest to anyone who would like to know more about Spanish in the Southwest, say a historical scholar, a teacher, anyone interested in Chicano studies, since it is a little like a time capsule preserving the language from decades ago in the southern Texas counties that at the time were predominantly Spanish speaking. And of course, one might might observe some of the pachuquismo life style and influence of that now-distant era, though we have not checked the vocabulary of the book yet for specifically pachuco words. That will be a blog topic all its own.
So from personal experience I know that the change is sort of like the movement among gasoline sellers to get rid of one of the octane ratings and just have your basic Unleaded and your Premium octane ratings, in other words, consolidate and reduce options.
These items listed below are our most recent books, from a software utility will point you to the corresponding listing on eBay. Using the title, they can also be found at My-Lynx Associates, which is our own web site, also Amazon, depending on any listing restrictions. They may also be found, though not as likely on Half.Com, A1Books, AbeBooks, Alibris, Biblio and so on. The links are provided on the right. The little grid below links directly to the eBay "Buy It Now" auction items. We say for the others "not as likely" because they have a different catalog of books and this makes them less likely than eBay, My-Lynx and Amazon to have the corresponding entry for some of the rarer or out of print items.
One of our rarest items in the list is in Spanish, Vocabulario Español de Texas, about the regional use of Spanish in Texas and how it differs from other versions/dialects of Spanish in other countries. Since Texas was originally part of Spain, and then Mexico, it has a long and unique history that blends the border divisions and creates a unique way of looking at things that is different from either the United States or Mexico. It was originally published in the early 50's as part of a larger scholarly set of studies. This is a 60s book, long out of print. It would be of interest to anyone who would like to know more about Spanish in the Southwest, say a historical scholar, a teacher, anyone interested in Chicano studies, since it is a little like a time capsule preserving the language from decades ago in the southern Texas counties that at the time were predominantly Spanish speaking. And of course, one might might observe some of the pachuquismo life style and influence of that now-distant era, though we have not checked the vocabulary of the book yet for specifically pachuco words. That will be a blog topic all its own.
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