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.
Tags: used books