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Selling Used Books Online: The Complete Guide to Bookselling at Amazon's Marketplace and Other Online Sites [Paperback]

Stephen Windwalker (Author)
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Book Description

Publication Date: Mar 2002
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

Product details

  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Harvard Perspective Pr (Mar 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0971577838
  • ISBN-13: 978-0971577831
  • Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 721,202 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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A wealth of information about the bookselling business, including descriptions of major online bookselling resources complete with detailed fee structures. -- News Update, A Friends of Libraries U.S.A. Publication

Don't even think about buying another book for resale until you read this book. A wonderful, sensible evaluation ... of selling used books via the internet. -- Tarmans Books

Incredible business resource.... an experienced authority candidly describes the pitfalls and the realities of ... book dealing with no punches withheld. -- from Bob Spear, Heartland Reviews, October 2002

Thousands of book enthusiasts are selling books online. If you'd like to join their ranks, this book is a must-read. -- Rebecca Hanneman, About.com, October 2002

Windwalker gives the reader all the inside tips and information needed to succeed in online bookselling. -- Junebug Books

From the Publisher

We are proud to announce that this best-selling independent press title by the founder of the Online Bookselling Resource Center website is now in its second printing.

For Online Booksellers, Authors, Independent Publishers, Public Libraries, and Software Authors: Whether your bookselling vision is brick-and-mortar, click-and-mortar, dot-com or dream-on, this is the book that will take you to the next level!

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3.3 out of 5 stars
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5.0 out of 5 stars The words of an expert 30 Jan 2008
By BG
Format:Paperback
Ask any internet based book-seller which book really taught them how to start and how to structure their business and they will all say this one. Just beginning to show its age, it is still packed with rock solid sensible advice for the beginner.

As someone who has been selling books for over twenty years I still return to Windwalker's book periodically to remind myself what I should be doing on the web.

One to buy, read and keep on the reference shelf.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Boring, out of date and motly not relevant for the UK 26 Jun 2012
By Ambitious Mum
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I downloaded this as it was free, but deleted it after getting half way through having found nothing of interest or relevance to me. It is more about setting up a used book selling business (in the USA)than selling the odd used book online. It did not deserve space on my kindle!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Technical book of how to market books 27 Feb 2013
By juvenus
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
A very good book for those seeking to market secondhand books,make your own on-line bookstore. athoroughly well written book on this subject.
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