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Re:Amazon.com Introduces Same-Day Delivery by dantheman on Thursday October 15, 2009 @06:17PM (#884384)
Used books are sold by independent vendors, so they're not really shipped by amazon but by a 3rd party... I don't know about CD's & DVDs
Re:Amazon.com Introduces Same-Day Delivery by zandorg on Thursday October 15, 2009 @06:30PM (#884401)
Those too. Basically, if you price the book at 1p, Amazon doesn't get their 15% (?) cut, which is why so many sellers charge 1p (or 1 cent). But if the postage is more than £2.75 (in the UK at least), they have to charge more, and then Amazon get their cut.

Basically, it's hard to make a decent profit by selling used books on Amazon, however, you can just put up the price. I've seen most used prices shoot up in the last few months.