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This method is very similar to retail arbitrage. This worked especially well at yard sales, estate sales, and even book store closings. The best time to make an offer an a large lot of books is at the end of the sale. Most people HATE dealing with books, and will sell them off for pretty cheap. The other way I found books was through online arbitrage. Online arbitrage is a method of buying a book on one marketplace such as Ebay or Craiglist to resell on another. Textbooks and first edition books are especially great targets. College kids are terrible planners and tend to buy their textbooks at the last minute.

So that means you can buy books which are FBM and tend to ship media mail and turn around and resell them Prime at a higher price. I kept a list of textbooks I could do this with. The returns are better than the stock market! Now you understand some of the basics of how to sell books on Amazon. Of the methods listed above, pick which one best fits you and your personality.

Are you the kind of person who likes the thrill of a treasure hunt?

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Then become a Scanner. Or are you a deal maker? Then go for wholesaling! Finally, you might just be happy with flipping the same 10 textbooks over and over again. That means OA is for you. Check with your local library and used book stores when they plan on putting a sale on. You might even find someone selling their own collection. I was surprised to discover how valuable some of the old titles were. There are two types of accounts you can start: I was no better when I started. Fortunately, I discovered Fetcher. Fetcher is a app that integrates directly into your Amazon seller account that helps you track your profits.

Plus, Fetcher comes with a few more goodies:. Plus, the easy-to use interface makes it my go-to option over Seller Central which I hardly check anymore. Just like it sounds. A brand-new, unused, unopened item in its original packaging, with all original packaging materials included.

Original protective wrapping, if any, is intact. An apparently untouched item in perfect condition. Original protective wrapping may be missing, but the original packaging is intact and pristine. There are absolutely no signs of wear on the item or its packaging. Item is suitable for presenting as a gift. A well-cared-for item that has seen limited use but remains in great condition. The item is complete, unmarked, and undamaged, but may show some limited signs of wear.

Use only if noted in the Category-Specific Condition Guidelines. The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. It may be marked, have identifying markings on it, or show other signs of previous use. The item is fairly worn but continues to work perfectly. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, and worn corners. The item may have identifying markings on it or show other signs of previous use.

Many book buyers on Amazon—myself included—will totally avoid this condition. Make sure you know your book conditions up-down-left-right. People who buy a lot of used books, myself included, are very sensitive about conditions. Different conditions come with different price points. Often, the lowest Very Good price will be a lot higher than the lowest Good or Acceptable condition. Once your books hit the fulfillment centers and so long as you priced them right and only picked books with low BSRs, you should start seeing sales right away. The more you can grow your business, the easier it is for you to push into even more profitable Amazon selling methods such as private label and wholesaling.

All you have to do is make sure that your customers are happy. A great way to keep up with your customers is through using an automated email service like Jump Send that will follow up with them and see if everything went okay with your order. Hopefully, this guide has taught you the basics of how to sell books on Amazon. I sold books on Amazon for about nine months before I switched over to private label full time.

But every now and then, I still like to find a few books to list using my old online arbitrage methods. How many hours per week were you putting in when you were making profit? Once I switch to FBA that went down to hours per week, most of which was spending time finding deals on wholesale books and listing the books on Amazon.

Once you hit a certain point, inventory gets harder and harder to find. But book selling, OA, and RA are awesome bridges to getting into bookselling. How do you start a brand selling used books? Is it just similar to a store front name? And I suppose there is money to be saved by not doing ppc?

If you choose the right book, does that mean you might get a 5 star review on the book. You can check BSRs directly on Amazon. Sometimes it seems like the Amazon FBA margins are very slim with books. Is it just quantity that drives sales for books on Amazon? My question for physical books is, you say you just put them in a box and ship to a fulfillment center.

Does a listing need to be included in the box with title and ISBN or something for identifier for the fulfillment center? Wondering the prep involved. Books are heavy also, does shipping costs of boxes of books become high? Again, though, great read and good info! How do they stock them without a label on each book?


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They sent me an email today asking to put a label on each product, which seems like a lot of work. It can be tedious, yes. Thanks, Dave for your replies. Do you wrap the books with cardboard cover before putting the label on them, or do you stick the labels right on the books and throw them into a box? Only on collectibles do I get sensitive about the sticker placement. I am finishing my first fba shipment today — thanks to your blog post.

If i have one of each book and say 10 books total, shipping FBA, do I put them all loosely in one box? Or each book has to have its own box. If you have one-offs, do you recommend fba or fbm? Great information but I am still a little confused. Can I purchase 40 different used books using the criteria you listed and shop them to be FBA in one box? I am just getting started and had 15 of the same new item to send off.

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FBA prompted me to send in 3 different shipments. It depends on where Amazon needs those books to go. I do know that they try to do their best to keep it all as close to you as possible. However, the thought of labeling and mailing that many books to Amazon is daunting. Hey Christine, Supposedly, selling prime gives you a pretty big bump in conversions since people will get the books sooner.

The textbook method, also called Zen Arbitrage by some, is pretty good since a lot of students want textbooks fast and are willing to pay the difference. Thank you for the helpful tips. My husband passed away last year and he was an avid reader. I have a few hundred books to sell with a mixture of paperback and hardback. They are in great condition except he always threw away the dust covers as he hated them.

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He mostly read sci fi, alternate history, and military related titles. Do you think that selling them on Amazon and using the FBA method would be my best bet? Well it looks like plenty of people are responding to this, not sure if these guys have been doing this all along or not but, I found tons of treasures in Goodwill stores over the years, but not books. Now that Goodwill stopped putting treasures on the shelves and instead they list the stuff, I decided to slow down visiting them. Just looks like junkwill in there now. But after reading this page I went into Goodwill today to scan some books and there was this guy all over the books with a scanner and a cart just scanning— bam bam one after the other as fast as he could.

I felt like saying: Hey, do you mind if someone else sees those books too. Discouraged from this new idea I just learned about, I went ahead on to the one on the other side of town.

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When I stepped in the door I went over to the books shelves and there was another guy with a cart and a scanner connected to his phone just scanning the books one by one in a speed method, occasionally throwing one here and there into the cart. This just seems not right that the book area which is usually no traffic hardly at all now suddenly has these book attackers scanning away. It really makes the other store customers just stay away until they leave.

I mean I felt like I had better not even dare to grab and check out a book that was within this guys two arms reach on this public shelf… it is intimidating to other potential book shoppers…Just walked away! Do you have a suggestion of how one might set up from outside the USA. Also just double checking on a couple of comments and answers: When you create your fulfillment order, Amazon gives you a label sheet that you print out and stick to each of your items. Hi Dave, What a great article. Does your method work for self-publishers of hard copy books as well?

And if so, does everything above apply? If you DO go getting your own books printed, you could try it, but with the super competitive nature of self-publishing, you could end up spending more than necessary before you test the market. Hello-Great article and tips. I want to buy and sell books on Amazon full time. However, I am quite discouraged about a lot of places not wanting us to use our scanners in their stores. Can you please expound on this? I would greatly appreciate it! Personally, I never did it with the scanner method.

Textbooks and niche books like comic books and stuff like that are pretty good for getting past the fees. Dave, I am about to retire, and I have about 6 thousand books in my personal library. Many of these are professional books: But I figured I would do the fulfillment myself. What I have are books likely to be found by people looking for that specific title or topic. Is that enough to turn a profit? I actually had a lot of luck selling Christian non-fiction when I started. Hi Dave, Thanks for the article through Jungle Scout. Also for the replies you have provided to the comments.

Could you please share your knowledge on selling new books? In fact, some publishing houses even allow you to drop ship directly from them. Typically, Amazon will send the books to whichever warehouses have the highest demand. Then, Amazon will split them up and send them to different locations around the country. I enjoyed it immensely. I am conscious of time tbh I dont have any and I would love to try and make some money from these.

From what I have understood from looking through Amazon and looking at BSR for the first time thanks 2 U i ca see most of these books are between , and 10, BSR. Please advice the best way forwards, UK based thanks mate. However, at 3 GBP you may see fees eating up a lot of your profit margins. I recommend sorting through and finding those where you can at least make a little profit. You might even consider starting slow and doing them via fulfilled-by-merchant where you mail the books. This is exactly what I was looking for today. I scored books this morning and decided to try and sell them on line.

So glad I found this, thanks for posting!! Thanks for this great article! I do have a question for you. Like Kathy and Rev. In my experience, non-fiction with BSRs below 1,, usually sell within 30 days on Amazon. I would like to know if I can just only Scan all my old books and post it in AMazon to sell.. Just make sure they have some value to them. Something which I searched a lot on internet. I made a listing on Amazon Local Finds here in India for selling my used books. I made a loss though as my purchase price was higher all were new.

I wanted to know following —. Here in India we get customers which are near to our location. Like if I am seller from west India I get customers from west India only as it is a local finds account. I wanted to know your customer region. Have you made an amazon seller account?

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If yes then how do you take care of local taxes on the transaction? In India we have GST. And we cannot sell beyond a certain price recommended by Amazon local finds. Here if there are issues like violation then seller account is taken down. Like if Pearson or Jacob Publishing is selling books and they dont want others to sell at lower prices they can tell amazon to take our seller account down. Can you guide me if you have faced such issues? So what phone ap do you use to scan the books?

Do you have to sign up with Amazon first to access their scanner? You can also use the Amazon retail app or seller app. Both have camera scanners built in. In , I inherited about books from my mother, who was a city librarian for 37 years and who salvaged these books when the library culled its collection to make room for new books. These books are up to years old and were selected by her for their literary value. Many of them have signatures on the inner cover.

Your book gets its own product page and you get an Amazon Author page with your listings, blog posts, and profile information. Your list price is the total of the base cost to make your book, your profit, and Amazon's fees. Amazon charges distribution fees for each listing. Amazon will report a sale after the day return window closes. We will process a payment and send it to you within 15—45 days if you meet the minimum payment threshold.

Make your book Use our layout tools or upload a PDF. Create your listing Choose a book from your dashboard, and click 'Sell my book'. Set Up In Dashboard. Promote your book Embed a preview on your blog, then share your book on social media with a comment about how to buy it. Use Kickstarter to fundraise for an offset run of your book.


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