The experience of being a seller of old books is available to amateurs, in the form of volunteering at your local "Friends of the XXX Library". These organizati

The experience of being a seller of old books is available to amateurs, in the form of volunteering at your local "Friends of the XXX Library". These organizations receive donations of books, sort and price them, and resell the books with the proceeds donated back to the library. Friends of the Palo Alto Library[1] processes tens of thousands of books in a year, and a single monthly sale weekend typically grosses over $15,000. As described in the article, books do arrive in, mostly, cardboard boxes, or in paper or plastic shopping bags, and I think I remember a plastic washtub. And of course in a suburb, they arrive as a loose pile in the back of an SUV. As volunteer manager of a section, I get to evaluate and price a couple hundred books a month. The primary tool for this is Bookfinder[2]. I can't imagine working in this business without it and other sites like Addall[3] and of course, eBay. [1] https://www.fopal.org/volunteer https://www.fopal.org/volunteer [2] https://www.bookfinder.com/ https://www.bookfinder.com/ [3] https://www.addall.com/used/ https://www.addall.com/used/