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Natalie Meyers is a freelance writer and editor with more than 15 years of experience. As an English major and a psychology graduate, she worked as a teacher and a counselor. As a writer, she's covered a diverse range of topics from technology to publishing. She is an avid reader who believes that books help us become more authentic versions of ourselves. At BookScouter, she's a smart writer and an expert in all things books.

Half Price Books Overview: Top 16 Questions about Half Price Book Stores

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In this blog post, we’ve prepared a list of the most popular questions regarding Half Price Books with answers. We hope you’ll be able to find the information you need in our answers.

Half Price Books is “America’s largest family-owned bookstore.” Headquartered in Dallas, it’s a chain of retail stores that specializes in buying and selling used and new books, music, movies, and games. The company was founded in 1972 in Dallas, Texas, by Ken Gjemre and Pat Anderson, who opened the first store with just $10,000 and a small inventory of books.

A Business Model to Scale Your Book Arbitrage Side Hustle into a Profitable Book Reselling Business

Book arbitrage, Personal finance By Natalie Meyers June 16, 2023 Last Updated on January 4, 2024 by Olivia Smith Tags: Amazon, book arbitrage, book reselling, book selling business, bookselling No Comments

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In this article, we’d like to share a book reselling business model you may have never heard of and a few insights about the benefits and challenges of running a book reselling business based on bulk used book supply. Tune in!

Donate Books to Charity: Help Someone by Doing a Good Thing

All about books, Green tips By Natalie Meyers June 16, 2023 Last Updated on June 26, 2024 by Abigail White Tags: buyback, donate books, donate books to charity No Comments

Donate Books to Charity

There is a reason for giving away things you may no longer need. It will make you happy. It will also make someone else happy, too. While it’s great to sell used things and get extra cash, you do way more than that when you donate books to charity. In this article, we’ll cover the reasons why you may consider the idea and how to do it in the best way possible.

10 Scholarships for College that Sound Unbelievable

Study tips By Natalie Meyers June 7, 2023 Last Updated on June 21, 2023 by Abigail White Tags: college students, scholarship, scholarship for college, scholarship for students No Comments

Scholarships for College that Sound Unbelievable

If you’ve always thought that scholarships are only for top students, we have good news! Plenty of organizations are ready to offer scholarships based on a range of criteria which are not top grades or best athletic achievements. Are you a redhead? Have a superpower? Prefer to sunbathe naked? There’s a scholarship you can apply to!

In this article, we’ve collected 10 unusual scholarships you may have never heard of. It’s both weird and cool to know that there’re options to support your studies other than getting the best GPA, being the most socially active person at school, or being the fastest runner/toughest baseball player. So, here we go.

Book Databases Overview 2024: Access Book Information via ISBN

All about books, Book arbitrage By Natalie Meyers May 18, 2023 Last Updated on April 16, 2024 by Abigail White Tags: API, book databases, bookselling, ISBN No Comments

If you need to pull up book data for millions of books (e.g., from the standard information book title, author, and cover art to less conventional data such as book reviews and price info), where can you get it? By accessing a book database, obviously. In this article, we’ll review and analyze the most popular book databases (both paid and free) with relatively open APIs that can help you retrieve book information by ISBN.

10 Q&A about Pre-ISBN Era Books

All about books, Book arbitrage By Natalie Meyers May 15, 2023 Last Updated on September 9, 2024 by Olivia Smith Tags: book arbitrage, book reselling, books without ISBN, bookselling, ISBN, pre-ISBN era No Comments

10 Q&A about Pre-ISBN Era Books

There’s plenty of information about listing and selling regular ISBN-13 books. However, what about the books that don’t have an ISBN? How do you deal with them? For one thing, such old books may not have any value; for another, some out-of-print books can be rare collectibles you can sell quite profitably. Therefore, knowing how to find and evaluate as well as where to sell books from the pre-ISBN era is an advantage you can use as a bookseller.

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