HIT: Pricing each item in a collection

[Von Bischoffshausen Gustavo <gustavo@tarea.org.pe>]

LMNETTERS:

I had a few replies in my request about how to price each item
in a collection. Thanks to you all that answered.

I am going to take the criteria of current replacement cost. I
have to take several criteria here to put replacement cost
price, because most of our books do not have a price.

1. Time criteria
2. Peruvian or foreign books. Peruvian books current
replacement  book cost is much cheaper thatn foreign books.
3. For Latin America current replacement cost plus an estimated
shipping cost
4. For all comercial (known publishing houses) an estimate of
$20.00 per book.
5. For journals I do not have and estimate price yet.


My original request was this...

>>> Now, since we have our inventory in december what I want
are some guidelines on pricing each item. In Tarea we do have
prices on many of the books we buy, but most of the
publications in our collection are obtained through interchange
of Tareas publications with other institutions (NGOs,
Universities, etc). Is there any paper or information where I
can get the criteria to use in establishing a price for each
item?>>>>>>

Here are the answers

I may not be following established protocol, but I would
suggest using the current replacement cost.  If you were to buy
the titles now, how much would they cost?  There is an average
cost for fiction and for non-fiction books in the Dewey
categories.   I know science books are more expensive than most
of the other non-fiction categories.  Reference books
are in still another price range.
I guess you could look at several titles on say amazon.com or
follett titlewave or permabound, etc. and use the average cost.
...............................................................

I use Baker & Taylor [online] and Follet's catalog for pricing
items that do not have a price.  If I still cannot find a price-
-then, paperback readers==$5,   paperback nonfiction==$8,
hardback reader==$8, hardback nonfiction $20,  reference
paperback==$10, reference hardback thin==$20,reference hardback
thick==$35-50[judgement call]..

..........................................................
We use Books-in-Print to determine pricing because if we lose
the book,that is what it will cost to replace.  For those items
that are not in BIP, we value our books at approximately $25.00-
--an average price of a book. Again, we focus on repalcement
costs---a book that was donated or bought for a low price may
have to be replaced at a much higher cost.
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Gustavo von Bischoffshausen (gustavo@tarea.org.pe)
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Andre Maurois

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