There’s been a lot of speculation lately about what the future of reading will look like. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard a lot about the Kindle and a lot of peoples various opinions on what impact, if any, it will have on the publishing industry. For those rock-dwellers out there, the [...]
A lot of people in the bookselling world are buzzing about the possibility of using iPhone scanners. Unfortunately for now it seems that all that’s available are not-so-great apps that “scan” barcodes by taking a picture of them, a method that’s unreliable at best. However your daily activities as a bookseller include a heck of [...]
As I discussed in parts 1 and 2, auto repricing is something you need to be aware of if you’re serious about selling books. Repricing can be done in different ways, but one of the ways I used to employ it is no longer an option thanks to something called consolidated SKUs. Once upon a [...]
Book selling is not unlike selling in any other market: price matters. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not one of those people who believes you have to always have the lowest price on every book. However, in a market where prices and demand are constantly shifting and fluctuating, you do need to know where you [...]
If you are new to bookselling, you may not be aware of one of the most valuable tools available to you to help you sell books: auto repricing. Basically, auto repricing is done through applications which are hosted either on your desktop or remotely on the web. You set up rules for a group of [...]
So I’ve posted about a couple of book selling related “in the news” type articles, like this one and this one. So far those posts have pretty much been about up-to-the-minute, breaking news from articles published on that day.This post is going to be a little different. While surfing the ‘net, I ran across a [...]
As I’ve said before, finding books to build and maintain your inventory is one of the most important keys to being successful at selling used books online. Finding books is getting more and more competitive every day. The pressure to get to the books first, combined with people’s desire to make money has led some [...]
Being a bookseller means wearing a number of different hats. One of the roles you have to play, a role that you might not have considered when you got into the business, is that of a warehouse coordinator. After deciding on a shelving option, you need to decide how you are going to organize your [...]
Many booksellers consider questions like “What books can I sell?” and “How can I sell my books?” but fail to ask themselves “Where can I sell my books?”. Where on the planet can you find customers? What countries can you ship your books to? Where can you sell your books? Worldwide. It’s too bad that [...]
One unavoidable challenge of selling used books is figuring out just how exactly you’re going to store them all. When you’re first starting out, you’ll probably have them in your home. Be careful where you keep them. It’s not necessarily a bad idea to store your books in your garage, for instance, at least as [...]
