Not sexy, but true: an Internet success story

From the NY Times, The Internet has revolutionized the used books business:

It seems curious that with the pricking of the dot-com bubble, with the demise of the vast majority of all the weird and wonderful things that were explored in digital commerce, such a seemingly unsexy business as used books should survive and flourish. But this is what the Internet does best: bringing a disparate and disorganized group of people together into a community, and an economic unit.