In "Ooh that is clever", there exists a Japanese startup ( https://www.recommerce.co.jp/ ) which gets you to OAuth into your Amazon account, sends you a box, you put your old books in, they scan all the ISBNs and then send to Amazon FBA, and they compensate you with Amazon credit.
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This solves an actual problem for me since the closest Book Off (the dominant secondhand book chain in Japan) closed (since the rent was untenable in this neighborhood; ~$30k a month) and since, by policy, they don't buy foreign-language books.
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A bookstore has to make a judgment call on whether to take on inventory risk for e.g. relatively obscure paranormal romance novels in English but these folks just have to scan the ISBN, after which a computer says "I'll make you a market: buying at 160 yen, selling at 410."
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