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Within hours of listing my Rotary books on Amazon, I sold one for $8.50. The profit from just that one book will easily cover the cost of the 3 books I bought at the warehouse.

Today I invested in more stock for my Amazon store. I won for a penny plus shipping a wholesale lot of 22 teacher’s books on eBay. I didn’t have the ISBN’s to look up for these, but did look up the titles on Amazon and several of them look like they can sell for a profit. I’ll let you know how this works out.

Temptation is there to buy more wholesale lots for pennies + shipping. As long as the shipping is realistic, and the books will sell on Amazon, this can work. My better sense tells me to hold back for now though. let’s see how this works first.

Today I stopped by the Rotary Club book sale warehouse. It was my first serious book shopping trip since I started selling used books on Amazon. Wow! It’s powerful to walk into that hot warehouse and see all those books….like where do you begin? I can see that it can help to find a niche or two and learn what sells. I concentrated on Women’s health, cooking books and crafts.

It’s a good thing I didn’t just go buy everything today that I thought was valuable. Instead I made a list of about 40 book titles and ISBN numbers and brought that home to see what might be profitable. Out of the 40 titles I picked, only 3 are worth going back for! This is not easy work. Those 3 will be purchased for $1.50 and sell for a few dollars profit each. One of them is selling used for over $40, but whether or not it will sell for me depends on demand: how many people are looking for a book on String Art? I will go back and get that book and find out how long it takes to find one.

On a happy note, I have another book sold… that makes 6 items sold so far. It’s cooking along enough to make me want to list more.