Online Book Selling Tips

[mandy]

As it becomes known that online book selling works, the business model is attracting everyone from passionate booklovers to the coolly indifferent. By one book blogger's estimate, there are currently 150,000 people selling or attempting to sell books on the Internet. In short, business is brisk, but so is the competition. For those starting out, here are some basic tips on what to seek and avoid in today's online book-selling marketplace.

First, Make a Decision…
Often new booksellers attempt to handle only what interests them. Some sellers specialize in rare and collectibles, others best sellers, romance paperbacks, textbooks, etc. Still others focus on niche fields such as children's books, military, maritime, history, sports, modern fiction or dozens of other specialized fields. However, given today's ferocious competition for books, becoming a "specialist" has become increasingly difficult. Many, if not a majority of online booksellers, myself included, are what we call "generalists," selling anything for which there is a demand, regardless of age, rarity or topic.

…Then "Beat the Bushes"
After deciding what you want to sell comes the tricky business of finding stock...

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