Do Your Musty Old Books Hide Gold?
Although our main focus here is on how to make money blogging, I promised to talk some about the other methods I am using to create multiple streams of online income. One of those is selling books.
There are 5 main ways that I know of to sell books over the Internet. I made a Squidoo lens about it here, which you really should check out.
In sum, the 5 avenues to selling books online are:
- Selling physical books through Amazon, eBay, etc.
- Publishing and selling your own ebook over the web
- Republishing public domain books on the web and selling advertising in them
- Selling individual book pages on eBay
- Earning bookselling commissions on Amazon
As noted on Squidoo, I have tried and had some degree of success with numbers 1, 3, 4 and 5. I’ll be blogging further about all of these, but I want to specifically say a bit here about the method I am currently working at the most: selling individual book pages on eBay.
Basically, you flip through old books and magazines looking for pictures or advertisements that you can remove and offer for sale individually on eBay.
It’s crucial that you learn the subjects that will actually sell well. Otherwise you can waste a lot of time (and money, in the form of eBay listing fees) trying to sell pages no one wants.
With the right subject, people will go wild bidding for a single page from some old book that you might have paid three or four bucks for. Calculate the profits if that book has 20 or 30 such pages in it.
Avril Harper, a hugely successful eBay seller based in the United Kingdom, turned me on to the profit potential of selling individual book and magazine pages. She produced an ebook which is really the bible on doing this: Make Money Tearing Up Old Books and Magazines and Selling Them On eBay. That’s the place that anyone interested in trying their hand at should start.
More on selling books online … to come.
