Selling Used Books Online is a comprehensive how-to bible for America's newest and fastest growing group of entrepreneurs, the sellers on Amazon Marketplace and other online venues. Author Stephen Windwalker, a successful online seller himself who has also operated a brick-and-mortar bookshop, provides a treasure trove of up-to-date information with verve, clarity, and wit.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has reported that the number of third-party sellers on his company's website grew from over 100,000 in the fourth quarter of 2001 to over 150,000 in the first quarter of 2002, and roughly one-third of these appear to be entrepreneurial sellers who are operating full- or part-time businesses in competition with each other, with Amazon, and with very large Amazon Marketplace sellers such as Powell's, the Strand bookstore, and Alibris. For these 50,000 entrepreneurs, Selling Used Books Online will be a powerful business resource that will help them level the playing field, stay in business, and prosper.
Selling Used Books Online meets the needs of booksellers and business readers who want to stay current on market changes, best sources, insider's tips and tactics, and best practices, and is also a essential addition for public libraries, the small business and entrepreneurship market and related agency and educational markets, and publishing industry and bibliophile readers. Back matter includes several useful appendices that online booksellers will use on a daily basis: a glossary, a list of standard bookseller abbreviations, a casual bibliography of resources on bookselling and collecting, and an online bookseller's "Rolodex."
The Most Up-To-Date Book In Its Field, Covering: · THE BOOKSELLING BUSINESS· SUPPLIERS AND SOURCES · WHERE TO GET YOUR BOOKS · WHAT BOOKS TO GET · WHERE TO SELL YOUR BOOKS · GRADING AND DESCRIBING YOUR BOOKS · POSTING AND PRICING YOUR BOOKS · ORGANIZING YOUR BUSINESS AND HANDLING TAX ISSUES · FULFILLMENT AND CUSTOMER SERVICE · EXPANSION ISSUES AND FUTURE PLANS · HANDY REFERENCE TOOLS YOU WILL USE EVERY DAY
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Selling Used Books Online: The Complete Guide to Bookselling at Amazon's Marketplace and Other Online Sites:
Excellent detailed information on how to do an honest business online. Includes many links for other helpful information for packaging, mailing etc. Highly recommend this for anyone looking to sell books, or who are already in the businss.
Excelllent starter book for online book selling:
There are so many books out there nowadays that talk about online book selling. The reason I picked this one to read is because I liked it's author's name - Windwalker. It was delight to find out that the author is in fact Native American. But besides that personal preference of mine, I found book to be very helpful. As most people, I started selling books online as a means of relinquishing non-essential inventory from my personal library. It is thru the interactions of my online customers that I learned to... more info
Selling Used Books Online:
This is an EXELLENT book for the newbie or advanced bookseller. There is a little something for everyone in it. It was written in laymen language for the new comer to the business sauve. I found it informative, helpful, great for anyone in the book business. A MUST read book. Worth the purchase. I give it a 5!!!!
The "bible" for Amazon Marketplace online booksellers:
We published this book, so we won't review it ourselves, but we can refer you to the hard-copy edition of the book with over 40 5-star reviews: Selling Used Books Online: The Complete Guide to Bookselling at Amazon's Marketplace and Other Online Sites You may also be interested in the following articles by the book's author, Stephen Windwalker, who has turned his attention to the publishing, email, and wireless features of the Amazon Kindle after providing the inside scoop on the online... more info
