![]() While there are fewer secondhand bookstores around these days, the ones that do exist are thriving. In a world of Netflix, Neon, and nine million mobile apps, you could be surprised to learn there's a used book renaissance going on. His books are available on Simons' Xanadu Book Exchange houses an estimated 15 million books, dating from the early-1800s up. Joe Waynick is author of several eCommerce books covering the bookselling and publishing industry. To find them just click the “GO” link next to the Search box below and you’ll be shown hundreds of titles like the sample books you see pictured: There are many great books chock full of ideas about how to profit from selling used books online. If you have questions about Internet bookselling, join me in the Internet Booksellers Forum for free advice and consultations offered to readers of my book, Internet Bookselling Made Easy! But savvy booksellers always go out of their way to find them. Just stick to clean books, that are as current as possible, and sell for $8 or more online, and you’ll do fine.įrequently, you can find these little gems on those rolling library book carts. But I buy hundreds, if not thousands of dollars worth of library books every time I attend a library book sale. That means I made a $13,500 profit in less than 90 days on a $1,500 investment!ĭeals like the one I just described don’t come along every day. Most of them weighed less than one pound, leaving me with a healthy $4.50 gross profit per sale after expenses. My average sale was around $6.50, plus $3.99 shipping for total revenues of $10.49 per book. Since 90% of them had an Amazon sales ranking better than 25,000 I went straight to the river. I didn’t even have to wonder where to sell used books when I made this buy. I took them all knowing that since they were all current year best sellers, my winners would far outweigh my losers. When an opportunity like this suddenly appears, there’s no time to do a library book search ![]() I immediately said, “I’ll take them all.” Right over the phone, sight unseen. When he told me they only wanted 50c per book, I didn’t hesitate for one second. In fact, they had over 3,000 best sellers written by dozens of different authors. He wanted to know if I was interested.Įvery single book had been published less than 10 months ago and each was written by a big name author like Tom Clancy, Nora Roberts, Michael Crichton, Lisa Scottoline, and many others. He said they over purchased current year best selling fiction books and they didn’t know what to do with them. Once, I got called by the head of the county purchasing department of a large public library system. When you book scout, should you pass up used library books? Absolutely not! You can sell used library books for fantastic profits if you know what to look for. Finally, it may have an old fashioned card pocket glued to the inside front or back cover. They will also carry rubber stamps that say, “Discarded,” “Withdrawn,” or “Public Library.” Many of them are wrapped in a mylar cover that’s difficult to remove without damaging the book. Consequently, most of them don’t have much value online.įor example, used library books often sport several special stickers made only for library books. ![]() The reason is that library discards usually aren’t in the best of shape. Many Internet booksellers won’t even look at them, let alone buy them at Library Book Sales. You see, used library books are the ugly stepchild of the online bookselling business. ![]() But one of the most lucrative places online booksellers get their books for resale are from public libraries. Since Amazon doesn’t sell used merchandise, who provides those books? Used books are actually sold by independent booksellers as a part-time or full-time business.īut where do those used books come from? Well, the answer is they come from a number of sources. You’re probably aware that you can buy used books from online bookstores like, , and. And many of them earn a good full-time income working from home. Sounds hard to believe, but it’s true! In fact, thousands of ordinary people like you do it every single day. Used Library Books Bring Big Profits! By Joe Waynick May 13, 2013ĭid you know that you can buy discarded used library books for pennies and resell them for $10, $20, $50, or even $100 and MORE? ![]()
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