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The Best Way to Sell Used Books On the Web

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Did you know you you can sell your own used books through Amazon, the world’s predominant online bookstore? You can also sell books that you pick up at yard sales and from thrift shops.

Well, it’s likely that is not news to you, especially if you’ve been looking into different methods to make money online. Amazon.com’s sellers program is a well-known place for people to list and sell their used books.

What might be news to you is that it’s possible to make a respectable extra income or even, with effort, a considerable first income by becoming an Amazon-affiliated bookseller.

Now that statement could be hard to believe if you got caught, as I did, in the great sellers’ glut that struck Amazon a few years ago.

It was so easy to join Amazon as a bookseller that a huge mob of folks started doing it. The result was to drive down prices so far that some books were being sold for pennies – hardly worth the time and expense of packaging and mailing them to customers.

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Nevertheless, it is is still quite possible to obtain books cheaply and then resell them through Amazon for $10, $20 or $30 each, and often a lot more.

The “trick” or method that makes this possible is to get a handheld PDA, outfit it with a barcode reader, and download Amazon’s entire database to it. Then you just take your PDA/barcode reader with you on your book hunting trips. You can use it to check the current fetching prices of the books you find, and then only grab those that you can see will bring in good money when you list them on Amazon.

Using a PDA with Amazon’s book prices information on it is the efficient way to run a used-book business today. The greatest benefit is that this will keep you from wasting your energy (and funds) acquiring books that no one wants.

There’s an excellent, downloadable report you can get that goes into detail on making money selling used books through Amazon using the PDA advantage. There’s a detailed, independent review of it here: Can You Still Make Money Selling Used Books on Amazon? Or, you can go directly to the book’s web site to check it out.

There are other ways to make a living selling books online. Four additional, completely different methods are outlined on this special Squidoo page.

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