The home-based online bookselling industry is
rapidly growing and offers the enterprising entrepreneur:
Low Risk
Small up front investment
cost
High profit margins
A business that is truly
scalable in size
Very flexible hours
Full-time or part-time
supplemental income
Requires no extensive
training
Operate from your home
Put as much or as little time
into it as you want
In
this book I will teach you
How to buy
the books worth selling
Where to buy
your inventory
How much to
pay for books
How to price
and grade your inventory
How to pack
your books for customer satisfaction
How to
prevent books from "escaping" in the mail
How to set up
and store your inventory
How to keep
records and make your taxes easy
Where to get
your shipping supplies
Why I made
the marketplace choices I did and how his lessons learned the hard way
can benefit you
How to
maximize your profits
How to
minimize your costs
Both books also include:
An exhaustive
list of wholesale and remainder book distributors and how to contact
them
Descriptions
about online suppliers of shipping materials with contact information
Descriptions
of the online marketplaces and the advantages/disadvantages of the
dominant ones
Contact
information and listings of numerous third-party suppliers of inventory
management software, online postage services, pricing & re-pricing
software, and wireless lookup services
The CD-ROM book
is filled with both internal and external hyperlinks to make navigating
efficient.
In the
paperback, I included an Appendix of operating instructions for my
"Bookkeeping for Booksellers" software, an Appendix of frequently asked
questions, I updated it to include marketplace changes, and expanded it to
include a discussion of the ISBN/EAN barcode and how an author can market
his/her own work without paying 55% to the Amazon Advantage Program.
AND
THE PURCHASE OF
EITHER BOOK OR MY "BOOKKEEPING FOR BOOKSELLERS" SOFTWARE WILL ALLOW YOU
TO ACCESS TO OUR "CUSTOMER ONLY" FORUM. AT THIS TIME, WE HAVE
OVER 400 MEMBERS!.
Some other
things you might ponder are:
How many
legitimate home-based businesses offer a steady 350%+ return on
investment? That is my average profit on book sales for the past
five years.
What would
you think of a return on your investment of 88,314%? I did that
with one book when I sold it for $260.04 and paid only $0.25 for it.
That is the profit after paying a 15% sales commission to the online
marketplace it sold through.
I am sure
that with this book as your guide you will be able to realize sales
profits like these too!
I have
included graphs of profits versus cost that depict the margins you might
expect. I have not seen any substantiating data like this in any
other book on this subject.
I included
historical graphs of the expected number of days to sell a book with a
given Amazon.com sales rank and presented in in a linear and
semi-logarithmic manner. I haven't seen any other author present
any data of this sort in their book, only general references to the
works of others that is dated and irrelevant.
