Selling Used Books Online: The Complete Guide to Bookselling at Amazon's Marketplace and Other Online Sites
by Stephen Windwalker
from Harvard Perspective Pr
Book Description
Selling Used Books Online is a comprehensive how-to bible for America's newest and fastest growing group of entrepreneurs, the sellers on Amazon Marketplace and other online venues. Author Stephen Windwalker, a successful online seller himself who has also operated a brick-and-mortar bookshop, provides a treasure trove of up-to-date information with verve, clarity, and wit.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has reported that the number of third-party sellers on his company's website grew from over 100,000 in the fourth quarter of 2001 to over 150,000 in the first quarter of 2002, and roughly one-third of these appear to be entrepreneurial sellers who are operating full- or part-time businesses in competition with each other, with Amazon, and with very large Amazon Marketplace sellers such as Powell's, the Strand bookstore, and Alibris. For these 50,000 entrepreneurs, Selling Used Books Online will be a powerful business resource that will help them level the playing field, stay in business, and prosper.
Selling Used Books Online meets the needs of booksellers and business readers who want to stay current on market changes, best sources, insider's tips and tactics, and best practices, and is also a essential addition for public libraries, the small business and entrepreneurship market and related agency and educational markets, and publishing industry and bibliophile readers. Back matter includes several useful appendices that online booksellers will use on a daily basis: a glossary, a list of standard bookseller abbreviations, a casual bibliography of resources on bookselling and collecting, and an online bookseller's "Rolodex."
The Most Up-To-Date Book In Its Field, Covering:
· THE BOOKSELLING BUSINESS· SUPPLIERS AND SOURCES
· WHERE TO GET YOUR BOOKS
· WHAT BOOKS TO GET
· WHERE TO SELL YOUR BOOKS
· GRADING AND DESCRIBING YOUR BOOKS
· POSTING AND PRICING YOUR BOOKS
· ORGANIZING YOUR BUSINESS AND HANDLING TAX ISSUES
· FULFILLMENT AND CUSTOMER SERVICE
· EXPANSION ISSUES AND FUTURE PLANS
· HANDY REFERENCE TOOLS YOU WILL USE EVERY DAY
At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries
by Estelle Ellis
from Clarkson Potter
For the bibliophile anxious to enhance the home library, At Home with Books presents both practical advice and divine inspiration. Chapters on starting a collection, organizing the library, and caring for books offer useful information on categorizing, editing, storage, and space-saving--"break down the books into categories by subject matter ... and compare their quantities to the available shelf space. If necessary, measure. Consider the book's height as well as its width. You may need to adjust your shelves to optimize your space." "Library Lighting," "The Art of the Bookshelf," and "Library Ladders" further encourage collectors to create a personal space suitable for its intended purpose, yet reflective of one's passion--"shelf lighting can draw attention to cherished objects and volumes; track lights can highlight certain areas of your room." Interspersed throughout these highly helpful chapters are interviews with noteworthy bibliophiles, including Keith Richards, Loren and Frances Rothschild, Bill Blass, and Paul Getty, whose "literary lairs"--ranging from the classic book-lined walls to books in the kitchen and the bathroom--are beautifully photographed, making At Home with Books not only a valuable resource for the dedicated collector, but a beautiful addition to any collection.
At Home with Books is a visual delight, a helpful resource, and an inspiration for every bibliophile with a growing home library. Includes professional advice on editing and categorizing your library; caring for your books; preserving, restoring, and storing rare books; finding out-of-print books; and choosing furniture, lighting, and shelving. Full-color photographs.
Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
by Aaron Lansky
from Algonquin Books
In 1980, a twenty-three-year-old student named Aaron Lansky set out to rescue the world’s abandoned Yiddish books before it was too late. Twenty-five years and one and a half million books later, he’s still in the midst of a great adventure. Filled with poignant and often laugh-out-loud tales from Lansky’s travels across the country as he collected books from older Jewish immigrants—books their own children had no use for—Outwitting History also explores brilliant Yiddish writers and enables us to see how an almost-lost culture is the bridge between the Old World and the future.
Warman's Little Golden Books: Identification and Price Guide
by Steve Santi
from Krause Publications
"Proven literary favorite - Little Golden Books are consistently within the top 5 of Publisher Weekly's list of leading hardcover children's books
Auction appeal - children's books account for more than 53,000 active auctions on the largest online site
Offers valuable advice for determining editions
Written by the country's leading Little Golden Books expert, Warman's Little Golden Books represents these childhood treasurers in the format collectors are accustomed to: bright, colorful, nostalgic and indispensable! Collectors will be able to easily identify and assess classics like ""The Poky Little Puppy"" and modern issues with this book, arranged alphabetically and by book number. Inside this guide collectors will find: *Secondary market price listings, plus details about how to determine value and condition of a book *More than 1,200 illustrations, giving collectors a colorful reference to use in assessing collections *Tips on how to determine value and condition of a book
From vintage Little Golden, to hip Little Golden Activity books, this guide has the information collectors need to grow their collection."
If You're Happy And You Know It, Clap Your Hands!
from Cartwheel
Folks will do almost anything if they're happy (and they know it)--from flapping their wings to touching their toes. At least they will in David A. Carter's pop-up version of the popular play song. Preschoolers will join in with glee, singing, "If you're happy and you know it...," while they help the playful animal characters clap their hands, wag their tails, and wink their eyes. Children pull simple tabs to animate the brightly hued cut-paper cat, dog, skunk, chicken, owl, and mouse. On the last page, all six animals pop up to "shout hooray" in a dramatic display of Carter's paper engineering flair. Musical notation for the song appears on the back cover.
Carter has created many well-loved interactive picture books, including another pop-up nursery song, Old MacDonald Had a Farm, as well as Alpha Bugs: A Pop-Up Alphabet and Easter Bugs: A Springtime Pop-Up. (Ages 2 to 5) --Emilie Coulter
Now Back in Print! Originally published in 1997, this book is sing-along fun for everyone! Every preschooler knows the words, tune, and motions to this popular play song. David Carter¹s special pop-up version is filled with lots of adorable animal friends. Children can pull the sturdy paper tabs to wink an eye, wag a tail, clap hands, flap wings, and shout Hooray! Bright and bold cut-paper illustrations make this a happy choice for young children.
ABC for Book Collectors
by John Carter
from Oak Knoll Press
This seventh edition of John Carter's classic text contains in-depth descriptions of every aspect of antique and modern book collecting from A to Z. All terms are alphabetized for quick reference, including how to take care of pigskin, morocco, or Russian leather, how to tell japon vellum from India proof paper and how to determine "very good copy" in a collectible volume. For first edition collectors, Carter's definition of "follow the flag" explains the historical issues surrounding first and native first texts. The book's pages are charmingly labeled, showing you exactly where the half-title and tailpiece are located and what a printer's imprint page looks like.
Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World
by Lawrence Goldstone
from St. Martin's Griffin
After years of competitive extravagance at birthday time, Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone decided to limit themselves to $20 each, which is how they came to be in possession of a $10 definitive translation of War and Peace, complete with maps of the major battles and fold-out color illustrations. It is also how they eventually came to be the owners of a $650 edition of Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit. Used and Rare, the Goldstones' tale of the journey from point A to point B, is a joyful celebration of their love of books. Rare-book dealers are a quirky lot; while one might invite you to caress an Adventures of Tom Sawyer worth thousands, another might turn you away altogether for no apparent reason. The Goldstones' enthusiasm is infectious, and, besides offering a lesson in used-book parlance, the pair remind us that for every book there are at least two stories: the one between the covers, and the one beyond the covers.
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
by Nicholas A. Basbanes
from Holt Paperbacks
What a delightful book about books and people who love books! As a second generation bibliophile, a possible bibliomane who had several people move out of my house a year ago because they erroneously believed that my books were taking over the household, and a devout employee of "Earth's Biggest Bookstore," I can vouch that Basbanes accurately describes the glorious role of book collectors as archivists of human knowledge, and -- in continual counterpoint -- sometimes pathologically obsessed book junkies.
Antique Trader Book Collector's Price Guide (Antique Trader Book Collectors Price Guide)
by Richard Russell
from Krause Publications
-Strong presence in online auction market -- majority of auctions feature pre-1950s editions
-Appeals to serious collectors by featuring a list of classic rarities in each collecting category
-Only full color guide to book collecting
Book collecting may have started in the 15th century, but it's definitely a hobby that's alive and well today. Readers will quickly discover this new reference is the most complete resource of its kind. Antique Trader Book Collector's Guide delivers:
-One-of-a-kind pseudonym guide to help collectors unearth books written by famous authors under different names
-Diverse categories of books such as Americana, banned, fantasy, horror and science fiction, childrens, mystery, occult and paranormal, and philosophy and religion.
-More than 6,000 current values to aid collectors with purchases and sales
Whether collector, dealer or basic book enthusiast, Antique Trader Book Collector's Price Guide is a valuable reference and interesting read.
Official Price Guide to Books, 5th Edition (Official Price Guide to Books)
by Marie Tedford
from House of Collectibles
Books are some of the oldest and most distinguished collectibles—the newly revised, fifth edition of The Official® Price Guide to Books reflects the current marketplace with new books and prices!
•This guide prices everything from rare signed first editions of The Wizard of Oz to today's Harry Potter blockbusters.
•Contains information on popular genres, care and repair, research resources, Internet sites, dealers, and auction houses.
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