Some of these eBay purchased books are from the 50′s and 70′s. I’m now interested in finding out how to tell better if they are public domain property; so I can copy them and put them into Kindle format to sell that way. That will be job over the weekend.

I’ve begun getting some of the items from Ernest’s estate ready for sale. Here’s a page I made to sell his used CPAP machine. The page will stay until it’s sold. If anyone needs one of those the price is right.

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.

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.

It was pretty cool to get that email telling me to ship one of them late last night. I have a pile more books to get busy and list now. When I finish listing what’s in the house, I’ll begin scouting thrift stores and garage sales.

Maybe by then I’ll know what kind of books are in demand and which sell for a nice price. People selling penny books on Amazon are not making any money at all. I’m not sure why they are doing that.

The book I sold was $4 with $3.99 shipping. Amazon took their commission from that: $2.94 and sent my payment account $5.05. From that I had to pay for shipping and handling (package and gasoline). Postage for this book was $2.93; so I grossed $2.12 for that sold book (not considering my tape and gasoline). Of course it would be smart to have 10 sold books to carry in one trip to the PO. This thing just has to get rolling now.