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Format : Enhanced
Author : Michael E. Mould
Edition : Updated and Expanded
Number of Pages : 228
Publisher : Aardvark Publishing Company L.L.C.
Amazon Price : $34.79
Used Price : $33.99 |
Product Description This book has everything you need to start your own home-based online bookstore and more. It covers: where to buy the books worth reselling, the various available online marketplaces and the advantages/disadvantages of each, how to price and grade your books, how to safely store your books with ease of locating them in mind, how to plan your business, the legal structures of online bookselling businesses, in-state retail sales tax and Schedule C tax issues, how to pack your books to minimize "escapees," thrid-party wireless lookup service, inventory management software providers, re-pricing tools, online postage services, websites & advertising, shipping methods & trade-offs, how much to pay for books, shipping material suppliers, an exhaustive list of wholesale & remainder book distributors, and much more. The author has included graphs to demonstrate how long you might expect to wait to sell a book with a given Amazon sales rank, histograms of profit distributions you might expect, tables of Roman Numerals, photographs of packing procedures & bookseller terminology, etc. With this book as your guide you are well on your way to being a successful online bookseller. Printed in Times New Roman 9 pt font. Customer reviews Great book for anyone considering the business by .. reader USA ()
Michael Mould has done an excellent job providing the nitty gritty details of what is involved in being an online bookseller. He has included some very helpful spreadsheets on a CD as well. In addition, he has started a website that is an excellent resource for anyone wanting to learn more about the business. I highly recommend the book!
Online Bookselling - A Great Resource by .. Author of Top Self Publishing Firms (Seattle, WA)
This well written and organized book walks you through the step by step process of setting up a home based book business. The author thoroughly covers all of the important categories:
1. Which books to buy or avoid
2. How to set book pricing
3. Creating a system for shipping and fulfillment
4. How to get listed on Amazon.com
5. How to set up the legal end of a home business
With the current state of the economy, this book will bring value to those looking for a full-time operation as well as those looking to earn a supplemental income. Very detailed and comprehensive, Online Bookselling covers all the bases.
Stacie Vander Pol, author of "Top Self Publishing Firms"
This isa very good book to own if you want to know more about selling on line by .. Monkey (Seattle)
This is an overall good book to own filled with practical advice about how to run an on line book store. Very indepth, sometimes too much so, like the bit about how to package a book for shipping, but you also do not get that level of detail in anyone elses book either. This is one of the quartet of books you should get when you decide you want to open up your own on line book store.
There are a lot of things sellers need to know and lots of support for this need for knowledge in the book from customer service, what to pay for books, how to grade and price books, as well as tons of other great information that you will need.
Overall 5 of 5 books, enjoyed reading this and learning how to apply the well thought out advice presented in this book.
Probably one of the best tools for our new business by .. Todd Macon (Durango, CO)
Michael Mould deserves serious kudos from the world of used booksellers. This book is extremely thorough and gives fantastic nuts and bolts advice. Mike is both rational and encouraging--he avoids the hype of "start-ups" which allows his book to be genuine and open-minded. His "day in the life" anticipates the "basic" questions and his lists of services and weblinks are very helpful. I also highly recommend buying copies that come with the CD "Bookkeeping for Booksellers". That Mike shares all the work he has done is generosity on a karmic scale. Not only is the book helpful, but Mike has created and inspired a large and collaborative community of booksellers through his work. Thanks, Mike, for pointing the way.
"The devil is in the details." by .. B. Baker (Lancaster, PA)
Michael Mould covers every detail for those who are interested in online bookselling (as a hobby or a business). I keep this book on my desk and refer to it frequently. Personally, I found the photographs on packaging and shipping to be very interesting (and vital, considering some of his own USPS experiences and insights). He even provides an informative "A Day in the Business" section detailing his own daily bookselling procedures. Very helpful. I have yet to see another bookselling guide to offer such detailed information or step-by-step illustration.
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Author : Stephen Windwalker
Number of Pages : 176
Publisher : Harvard Perspective Pr
List Price : $17.95
Amazon Price : $29.98
Used Price : $13.50 |
Product Description Book Description 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 Selling Used Books Online: The Complete Guide to Bookselling at Amazon's Marketplace and Other Online Sites by .. Shirley A Hickey (Green Bay, WI)
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 by .. Reader (Chicago, IL USA)
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 enjoy an activity previously considered a chore. Although I am not a professional bookseller, I am delighted to be a part of the bookselling community for the books I no longer wish to keep in my personal library that can still find a good home. This book manual has helped me understand some basic business rules on bookselling which I kind of pick up on intuitively. This is a comprehensive handbook that covers everything, from building a business plan, to making a proper book descriptions online. Without large inventory, I cannot see how people can make living off this. But as a hobby, this is a great way to deliver books to a reading community where readership has limited resources or time to find them in the regular brick and mortar book stores. I definitely recommend this book to anyone interested in learning more about online bookselling.
Selling Used Books Online by .. S. Bittner (Wisconsin, USA)
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 by .. Steve Holt (Massachusetts)
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 bookselling business:
20 Effective Steps to Publishing a Kindle Edition of Your Book or Document: How to Connect Your Amazon Kindle Book with Readers (Publish and Market Your Book on Amazon Kindle)
How to Use the Amazon Kindle for Email & Other Cool Tricks: Read and Answer Email Anywhere, Anytime on the Amazing Amazon Kindle (The Amazing Amazon Kindle)
The Amazon Kindle Basic Web Wireless Service: Why It Is a Revolutionary Feature, and Why Amazon Should Keep It Free or Cheap
Second thoughts about selling used books by .. Lawrence Johnson (Pennsylvania)
I have been selling my old books on line at ebay and half com for awile now and thought an online book store sounded like a good idea. I thought that I would seek some expert advice and in doing so purchased Selling Used Books Online by Stephen Windwalker. This book has proven to be an excellant choice. While some of the information is a bit dated, overall it is a very good book. It doesn't sugar coat the book selling business and make it seem like a wonderfull and easy way to make a living. Mr. Windwalker gives you the good with the bad and shows how selling used books requires a lot of work and and a lot of knoweledge. This book has helped me tremendously in my attempts at making money selling used books. Not only has it helped with my book selling but it has made me more aware of what to look for in my book buying. I highly reccomend this book to anyone who thinks they can just go online and get rich selling used mass market paperbacks.
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Author : Sandy Van Densen
Number of Pages : 50
Publisher : Lightning Rod Publishers
List Price : $10.95
Amazon Price : $8.75
Used Price : $9.86 |
Product Description Looking for the best websites? Let Lightning Rod draw you in the right direction. You’re tired of aimlessly searching the web. You’re sick of garbled search engine descriptions. You’ve tried checking out webrings but what good are they if half the sites offer the same information? Our guides list names, URL addresses and concise descriptions of the best sites on a topic. We only list the best-designed, most easily navigated and most easily understood sites that offer unique or exclusive information. The text in the guide is in a clear, large font for easy reading and copying into any web browser. Plus, you’ll find great factoids right here without ever having to sign on! Vital information and fascinating facts about your favorite topic. For newbies and experts alike, we give you factoids that everyone should know or be reminded of. No rumors here — just the better-than-fiction facts. Lightning Rod guides are compiled by fans, not computers. Regularly updated and revised, our guides are simple, straight-forward and unofficial — there’s no corporate interest driving our lists. Say goodbye to annoying search engine descriptions and say hello to a whole new way to surf the web. Customer reviews Talk about a lot of work... by .. ()
I can't believe the amount of surfing that had to go into this book. Yeah, you could find all this yourself using a search engine, but the writers not only categorized hundreds of online stores by genre (i.e. science fiction specialists, college textbooks, etc.), but they also review each individual web site, pointing out what's good and on occasion, what could be a bit better. If you're into online bookstores, on an indie writer like me looking for smaller shops to hook up with, this is def worth the investment!
Related Search : best websites , online bookstores , direct hits  |
Format : Kindle Book
Author : Paula Berinstein
Publisher : The Writing Show
List Price : $4.50
Amazon Price : $3.60
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Product Description Writing Show host Paula Berinstein tells the story of her spectacular failure as an online bookseller. Related Search : run online , bookstore  |
Author : Truoc Duong
Number of Pages : 156
Publisher : Lulu.com
List Price : $13.55
Used Price : $39.68 |
Product Description You buy another self publishing book, then buy the publishing software, then buy more books to learn the software, or get this book with everything you need to write, publish & sell on Amazon now! Here are what you will do with this book. WEEK 1: # Install LyX & its companions: 1/2 day. # Play with LyX & its companions: 2 days. # Format & finalize your book: 3 days. # Create your book covers: 1 day. # Generate & submit your books PDF file to Lulu for FREE publishing as perfect paper book & ebook, and order a printed copy to check for perfection: 1 hour. WEEK 2: # Enjoy nature while waiting for your book: 5 days. # Receive your book from Lulu, check & make corrections: 2 days. # Resubmit your books final PDF file to Lulu & approve it for worldwide distribution: 1 hour. # Your book is on sale on Lulu.com IMMEDIATELY! # It is on sale on AMAZON & many online bookstores worldwide within 10 DAYS! Customer reviews LyX and Booksurge by .. Jonathan Kroner (Miami, USA)
The book's self-description suggests that Booksurge will accept a LyX generated pdf but I've not been able to get a Booksurge representative to confirm that a LyX pdf meets its specs for embedded fonts, etc.
Is this a fact that LyX pdfs can go straight to booksurge without additional adobe processing?
Related Search : ebooks sell , paper books , using free
Author : Linda Anne Silvestri
Publisher : C.V. Mosby
List Price : $14.95
Amazon Price : $14.95
Used Price : $14.94 |
Product Description Part of a new series of Online Specialty Tests, this internet-based exam focuses on adult health and contains approximately 100 high-quality review questions. Updated annually, it includes all of the components students need to help them practice and review for the Boards. Each exam in this series provides practice questions in an electronic environment, much like the NCLEX-RN, to help students and recent nursing graduates feel more confident before the NCLEX-RN examination experience. Related Search : saunders online , specialty test , pediatrics bookstore  |
Author : Sandy Van Densen
Number of Pages : 80
Publisher : Windstorm Creative
List Price : $10.00
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Product Description For many bibliophiles, the Internet was nothing more than a hopeless tangle of confusing addresses and bad search engine descriptions. After all, what could compare with an afternoon spent in a dusty used bookstore, seeking out the rare gems hidden on the top-most shelves? Veteran Internet guide compiler Sandy Van Densen has the answer: The Online Bookstore Guide. This extensive listing of bookstores includes the expected superstores, but also many genre specific outlets (history, gay and lesbian, romance, science fiction, New Age, religion, etc) as well as information about where to find used and rare books. Customer reviews Wow by .. ()
With all the search engines on the net, it seemed a bit silly to buy a bookstore guide at first. As a self-published author, I really wanted a good compilation of bookstores on the net to try to market to, but more importantly, a list of GOOD bookstores on the net. What entails good? It's easy to surf, has an existing audience, and is frequently updated. If that's what you're looking for as well, then this is the book for you! The author even breaks stores up by speciality, which is a nice touch.
Related Search : internet guide , online bookstore  |
Format : Large Print
Author : George C. Barrier Sr. and Ellen J. Barrier
Edition : 1st
Number of Pages : 225
Publisher : Barriers Books and Associates
Amazon Price : $15.00
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Product Description This book was born out of our personal experience, from problems we have encountered through the years. And, because of our personal relationship with our Heavenly Father, through our Lord and Savior - Jesus Christ, we know how to trust God when all other resources have failed. God has inspired us to write this book so that those who do not know him, in the fullness so his power, might believe and trust him when all other resources they sought have failed. Cover illustration #92169 done by George C. Barrier Jr. Authors: George C. Barrier Sr. and Ellen J. Barrier Related Search : trust god , resources failed |
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