Selling used books on Amazon
As part of Project Downsize, I’m selling my beloved cookbook collection on Amazon. By selling your used books on a platform like Amazon.com – you can reach millions of people and ask a reasonable selling price, instead of the $2 you might get from selling your book at a garage sale.
I am such a fan of Amazon’s used selling structure – it has served our family well over the last decade. That’s right – nearly 10 years ago my husband and I started selling our used text books on Amazon. We were newly married, just out of college (with a heap of student loans) and working entry level jobs. Selling our college textbooks on Amazon morphed into a full time book business – at one point we had more than 3,000 books listed for sale on Amazon. We’d spent our weekends (before kids) scouting book sales, garage sales and thrift stores, looking for used books – which we turned around and sold on Amazon. We made enough doing this to pay for my husband’s Master’s in Education degree – with cash, no loans! And it helped us supplement our income when we needed it most.
After we had kids, it was too difficult to spend hours hitting book sales and thrift shops, so we eventually got out of the “business” of selling used books online. But the platform for selling books is still the same – and you’ll find that there are hundreds of people across the country doing this as a full-time income.
Why I like selling books ::
- Books are EASY resale items. Unlike antiques, clothing, shoes, decor there is no research needed to find the value of a book. Every book has an ISBN on the back cover and that’s all you need to find the going price.
- Books are EASY to ship. Unlike other merchandise – books are predictable. You need a collection of padded envelopes – no bubble wrap, box sizes or crazy shipping costs.
- Books are INEXPENSIVE to ship. Books (and other forms of media) have their own postage rate, it’s called Media Rate, and it’s cheaper than most other kinds of shipping.
Recent Comments