Quote Originally Posted by smajor View Post
Re books

Yeah, selling through Amazon and the other book selling venues is slower but you get a much higher return in the long run. Of course you have to have the space to store the books in the meantime. theartofbooks.com is one way to manage sales through a number of selling venues.

BookScouter.com is a good one-stop shop to get an overview of book buyback venues.
Hey smajor,

Its great that you're able to really do great with other venues such as Amazon, unfortunately, bookscouters are a plenty here in Charlotte, NC and the majority do sell via amazon.com, a small minority sell half.com, abebooks, ebay, and of course bookstore owners are always on the hunt. Also, most of the second-hand stores, the goodwill's in my area, and salvation army are scanning books (setting aside books they will sell via amazon before they put books on the shelf).

In other-words it's slim pickings here -- for those trying to sell in those venues anyway.

Now I will tell you I've used bookscouter.com, DealOz, and BigWords. And it does help me because I know exactly what my profit will be before I spend a dime to buy anything.



I know you're right when you say I would make a lot more with Amazon in the long run, but when I scan Amazon doesn't even show a blip on my phone.

I always find books though -- even when books have been gone through dozens of times by bookscanners that can't even find one -- and there are a lot of happy scanners when I'm around because they know I'm not competing with them for the books they want.