Make Money at Home Online Selling New and Used Books



Hello and welcome to my site Make Money at Home Online. The best way that I have found to do this is to sell new and used books online... To get started read my story below.


Selling Books Online!

There I was, on a rainy day in November looking through a box of junk at an estate auction. The owner was a retired grade school teacher until she passed away. Now all her belongings were crowded under an auctioneer's tent and an old oak tree in her back yard.

I found a large box of books that looked interesting and decided I would place a bid on them when the auctioneer got around to them. I had been looking for a business that I could start and run from home and decided to try my hand at online book sales.

The box had a mixture of Dr. Suess and Little Golden Books in it. The Dr. Suess books had their dust jackets and I had read online that books with dust jackets bring more online. The Little Golden Books were in excellent shape and most were from the early '50s. I managed to get the box of books for $60.00. Admittedly, I had no idea what I was doing, and finding these books was just dumb luck.

I created my first eBay auction and started the auction at one dollar. A flood of questions followed the listing and one of my kind bidders helped me determine that I had a first edition Dr. Suess book. The auction ended with 24 bids at $214.00 seven days later.

The Little Golden Books were all first editions as noted with “A” in the crack between the last page and back cover. I didn't find that out until a bidder asked me about it. By the way, that crack is called a hinge or gutter. The last and first pages are called end-papers and the covers are called boards. But we'll talk more about that later. I sold through the rest of the books on eBay and made almost $900.00 from a box of books I had paid $60.00 for. Some of the books never sold but I made over $800.00 profit.

After a year of attempting to sell the last books, I donated them to a charity. The hardest lesson I had to learn is that most books are worthless and throwing away or donating a book to charity is not a sin. Publishers churn out thousands of books a year that are junk. Don't get caught up wasting all your time trying to squeeze a dime or two out of worthless books. Toss them and go on or you'll end up working for minimum wage.

Now to tell you the truth, I've never found a cache of books like that again but I do find $50 - $100 books weekly still. That first experience defiantly gave me the book bug. That was over 3 years ago and I've never stopped selling books online. It's become quite profitable and my wife has quit her job to work at home selling books online full time.

One of the recent trends in business is, of course, e-commerce, which is doing business through the Internet. The term “brick and mortar” is used to describe a traditional physical storefront, the neighborhood independently owned and operated bookstore. Many brick-and-mortar bookstore owners have expanded their business to include sales on the Internet. Some bookstores have closed their stores and focused only on Internet sales only. New entrepreneurs have entered the Internet market, while some unfortunate booksellers have crumbled in the wake of the added competition.