Help Page

How it works

The BookEMart is provided as a free service to connect buyers to personal sellers of second hand books. It is a great way to get rid of those old texts and other books cluttering up the house. You can use the service either to sell books you have or to locate books you want to obtain.
The way it works is really simple...

• You register an account to manage titles you wish to sell or locate
• You use your account to add and modify titles to be listed
• Buyers search the Titles Submitted for Sale to locate titles of interest
• Buyers contact you to negotiate the sale terms and collection using the email address displayed on the listing and your general location (where you are located will obviously affect any decision to purchase). Note that your address and telephone numbers are not published.
• Sellers can search the Titles Wanted to Buy listings to see if they have matching titles to sell

Please Note
The titles are not held by us here - we do not sell books or stock any of the titles listed.
It is up to buyers and sellers to negotiate directly the terms of the sale. This site merely connects buyers to sellers.

Management Policy
Titles for Sale are placed on line for a period of six months. If the title is not accessed by a prospective buyer during the last two months it will be Lapsed. A Lapsed title can be re-activated once you access it from your account and update the Status. Titles not re-activated within one month of being Lapsed will be deleted from the system.

Titles Wanted are placed on-line for 12 months. If the title is not accessed by a prospective seller during the last two months it will be Lapsed. As with Titles for Sale, the Status can be changed once the title has been Lapsed.

We take no responsibility for the accuracy of information submitted by sellers nor for the bona fides of buyers.

Titles are classified as Submitted for Sale or Wanted to Buy.
Titles For Sale are books currently held by sellers whereas those Wanted To Buy are titles being sought. You must search titles using one of these classifications.

Listings can be searched by Title, Author, Type of Book, and Classification in any combination. For example, searching for "The Magic Faraway Tree" by Enid Blyton would be successful by using the title exactly, or 'Faraway Tree'. You could also find all books by Enid Blyton by typing "Blyton" into the author category.

Searches are NOT case sensitive - "Faraway" is treated the same as "FARAWAY" by the search-engine.

Searches are more effective if you provide as much search information as possible. The fastest response would be obtained by typing "Magic Faraway Tree" in Title, "Blyton" in Author, and choosing "Children's Books" from the Category list. The more information you supply, the faster the search will run.

Titles are returned as a list in batches of twenty per page. To browse listings spanning more than one page, step through the pages using the Next and Previous buttons. To examine a particular title, click the hyperlink button next to the title. You can also use the Next and Previous buttons to step through individual titles on the Detail view.

Registering a new Account

You must establish an Account if you intend to submit titles you have to sell or you are trying to find.
To establish an account you must provide your name, a valid email address, a contact address, a location, and a telephone number. Only your email address and location (eg. nearest suburb or town) will be published on the site - all other details are stored securely and are confidential. You cannot access the listings of other users nor can they access yours (your personal details will not be made available to any other organisation or individual under any circumstances).

To ensure this security, you must assign a Password to access your account. Please make sure you remember your password! You will need to use this password any time you wish to access your listings to make changes or add new titles. You can modify your details at any time but you cannot change your email address or password. If your email account changes for some reason you may create another account, or contact us directly if you want your account modified. To make changes to your account, select the Account button after logging in.

You should ensure that you use a secure password (eg. mixed upper and lower case, numbers and text etc.) because your account name (ie. your email address) is published. Don't use obvious passwords (like "password") to protect your account.

To create an Account now, go to the Register an Account page.

Login to an existing account

Access to your account is controlled by your email address and Password.

To access your account simply type in your email address and password on the Login page.

Lodging Titles with your account

Once you have established an Account you can begin adding items you want to sell or hope to find.
Items must be entered using the Title Entry form that is accessed from your account.

The submission form requires the following information. Fields marked with an asterisk (*) are required.

Managing Titles from your account

Once you have placed titles on line they are automatically available to buyers and sellers to search.
It is important that you manage your account because a title is automatically Lapsed (ie. removed from the available titles) if it is not accessed during the last two months.

"Access" is defined as the process of loading the record to the Title Detail screen after a search. You can keep track of the access to a title by looking at the History which gives the last access date and number of times it has been displayed. Note that accessing the record from your account does not constitute "access". A title is accessed only after performing a Search.

Once a title is lapsed it will be deleted from the system automatically after a further calendar month unless you choose to re-list it. The criteria for deleting titles are:

1. The title is For Sale and has been listed for six months, or
   The title is Wanted To Buy and has been listed for twelve months
2. The title has been set as "Withdrawn", "Sold", or "Lapsed" for one month or longer

If you wish to ensure your titles remain on-line you will need to reactivate them before they are deleted. You can do this by logging into your account and editing the entry - use the Edit Title button after accessing the title from your Titles List.

Once titles have been deleted they cannot be recovered.

This policy is to ensure that the listings turn over regularly either through sales or expiry.

To manage titles you should:

• Login to your account
• List the titles in your account
• Load the title you wish to modify
• Select Edit Title and make any changes, including changing the status - this can be set to "For Sale", "Wanted", "Lapsed", "Withdrawn", or "Sold".

It is important that you ensure any sold items are updated promptly so that you don't get unwanted inquiries.