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The Home-Based Bookstore: Start Your Own Business Selling Used Books on Amazon, eBay or Your Own Web Site
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MSRP: $18.95
Your Price: $17.05
Savings: $ 1.90 ( 10% )
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Manufacturer: Weber Books
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Additional The Home-Based Bookstore: Start Your Own Business Selling Used Books on Amazon, eBay or Your Own Web Site Information
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Want to know the most profitable, lowest-risk idea for your home business? It's selling used books online, which is growing 33 percent annually, according to a November 2005 study by U.S. publishers.
Here is the complete text of the most popular book about online bookselling of all time: The Home-Based Bookstore: Start Your Own Business Selling Used Books on Amazon, eBay or Your Own Web Site
Learn how to start your business part-time, then work as little or as much as you want. This step-by-step guide, written by one of the most successful and highly rated sellers on Amazon.com and eBay, includes everything you need to know:
-- Where to find books
Find books in your own neighborhood to resell profitably to a worldwide pool of ready buyers. Get the best sources for valuable used books at low prices.
-- Where to sell Learn
How to list your books to sell at the best price on Amazon.com and eBay, and even your own Web store. -- Which books to buy What to look for in fiction, nonfiction, and collectibles to resell at the highest profits.
-- Grading and pricing your books
How to describe and price your books. Learn what buyers are looking for.
-- Handling customers
Tips on handling online book buyers. See the author's time-tested scripts for responding to customer issues. Learn how you can get and maintain high feedback ratings.
-- Fulfilling orders
Easy-to-use ideas for storing, organizing, and shipping your books and handling returns.
-- Automation tools
Maximize your efficiency with these tips on automating your business. Automatically notify customers about shipments, and print postage to ship your books without leaving home.
-- Taxes and legal requirements
How to register your business to obtain the proper permits and be exempted from paying sales tax on your inventory.
-- Exclusive list of wholesale book distributors
Exclusive profiles and contact info for 32 wholesaledistributors of used and new books. Order inventory at up to 90 percent off retail, shipped right to your door.
About the author:
Steve Weber started his home-based bookstore as a hobby in March 2000. Two months later, he quit his day job to sell used books full-time on Amazon.com and eBay, using his one-bedroom apartment in Virginia as warehouse and shipping depot. In the meantime, he has sold more than $1 million of used books to buyers in all 50 states and 31 foreign countries. In this step-by-step guide, Weber tells you how he took $80 in savings to buy his first batch of books, then invested the profits to build a successful business, and how you can too.
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What Customers Say About The Home-Based Bookstore: Start Your Own Business Selling Used Books on Amazon, eBay or Your Own Web Site:
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I thought selling books would only take a little common sense. There is no wasted space. Don't let the small size of the book fool you. I've learned so much in just the first chapters (and had many errors in thinking corrected). It is full of highly useful/practical information from cover to cover. I recently planned to start selling books part-time. I suggest reading it with a highlighter in hand.
This is a great book to help anyone get started selling books online. Very informative.
I wasn't sure I'd learn much from this book, but I was wrong--it's very informative. Also, the writing is very clear and to the point.
Great book. Writer knows how to tell the general public what it's all about inlaymens terms.
A lot of this book was content that was easily available online. And no more 4th and 5th party online sellers for me, either.The author at one point mentions customers who are upset about the condition of an inexpensive book--if the stated condition doesn't match the book, the customer does have a right to complain, regardless of the price of the book (which online includes shipping/handling costs). A lot of sellers don't realize this, and this book doesn't get it, either. I buy a lot of used books. It was more helpful to me as a buyer of used books online. There is a distinct advantage to being able to personally examine books. I was disappointed by how small and unhelpful the customer service section of this book was, as well as how little time was spent emphasizing how important it was to be honest about a book's condition in order to avoid customer dissatisfaction issues. Customers get really tired of returning incorrectly described/damaged books due to poor packaging back to sellers, and unlike sellers, we can't write off the trip (and in some cases packaging).
If you know up front the book is in x condition and are willing to pay the price, fine. The problem is that many online sellers seem to ignore what the very clear Amazon book descriptions state, and the bigger the seller, the worse the problem seems to get. I'm not saying all online sellers are like this, by any means.Borrow this from your library. If I were going to sell books online I would look for a different book.
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