Do you realize that you can sell your used books via Amazon.com? You can also sell books that you obtain at yard sales and from thrift stores.
Well, it’s probable that is not news to you, especially if you’ve been looking into various methods to make money online. Amazon’s sellers’ program is a well known venue for pocketing extra change by listing and selling used books.
What you might not know is that it is really do-able to establish a good income as a bookseller associated with Amazon.
Now that statement might be difficult to believe if you got caught up, as I did, in the great sellers’ glut that struck Amazon a few years ago.
It’s so easy to become an Amazon bookseller that hundreds and then thousands of people started doing it. The inevitable result was to drive down prices so far that some books were being sold for pennies – hardly worth the time and expense of packaging and mailing them to customers.
Nevertheless, it is is still quite possible to obtain books cheaply and then resell them through Amazon for $10, $20 or $30 each, and often a good deal more.
The “trick” or method that makes this possible is to get a handheld PDA, outfit it with a barcode reader, and download Amazon’s entire database to it. Then you just take your PDA/barcode reader with you on your book hunting trips. You can use it to check the current fetching prices of the books you find, and then only grab those that you can see will bring in good money when you list them iwith Amazon.
Using a PDA with Amazon’s data right at your fingertips is the smart way to run a used-book selling business. Its biggest advantage is that it will keep you from wasting time and money buying up books that no one will buy, or else will pay only pennies for.
There’s an excellent, downloadable report you can get that goes into detail on making money selling used books through Amazon using the PDA advantage. You can read a detailed, independent review of it here: Can You Still Make Money Selling Used Books on Amazon? Or, you can go straight to the book’s web site to check it out.
Amazon isn’t the only game in town when it comes to selling books online. Four additional, completely different methods are outlined on this special Squidoo page.