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I've sold books in Amazon and have often wondered how people make a living selling books there. I've made a $9.00 book sale there and ended up getting about $2+
by WheelsAtLarge 9y ago
I've sold books in Amazon and have often wondered how people make a living selling books there. I've made a $9.00 book sale there and ended up getting about $2+ after all their charges. I wasn't thrilled but since I had no other place to sell it; It was better than nothing.
If you're a retail business you would have to get the books at a very low cost plus you would need to do it in bulk for it to be worth the effort.
- tomcam 9y agoBooks are extremely cheap to buy in volume. Sellers rent cheap warehouse space and store thousands of books at a time. The selling price of each book is irrelevant. Often it is only one cent. Shipping for a book via Amazon’s sharply discounted rate is about $2.50. They charge about $3.50 for shipping. They make about $1 a book essentially using Amazon’s shipping fees in an arbitrage scheme.
- WheelsAtLarge 9y agoGood point, in the past, when we actually had bookstores. Book distributors would ask for the book covers of unsold paperbacks rather than the whole book when shipping it back. Their thinking being that it was cheaper to destroy the book than to get the book back. I suspect that now distributors are happy to get rid of what they can't sell and people are mostly happy to get rid, cheaply, of any books they no longer want.