About a month ago, one of the oldest used bookselling companies in the US abruptly shut down. Today, we’ll discuss why it happened and also explore other ways of finding affordable books now.
Having been on the bookselling market for two decades, DiscoverBooks went out of business somewhere around March 22, 2024. There has been no official notice or press release so far; the employees were notified on the spot, and many orders were left unfulfilled.
We’ve already written about how to scout books and book arbitrage in general, as well as about some ways to get books for free in your location if you’re reselling. Yet, we’ve decided to dedicate the entire post to free books. So, regardless of your goal—you’re looking for new reads, textbooks for your studies, or you’re a book scout and reseller—we’ve collected the information for you and compiled it into a neat article.
Understanding the weight of books is more important than it might seem at first glance.
For those who sell books—online booksellers, book scouts, or students selling their old textbooks—it’s a way to optimize logistics and profitability. Book weight directly affects shipping costs, the choice of the carrier, and methods for shipping.
In this post, we’ll take a look at the average weights of various book types and provide insights into calculating book weights accurately.
Opening a book is like opening a door to a whole new world. For many avid readers, the thought of owning and running their own bookstore is a dream come true. It can offer a sense of fulfillment and satisfaction to see people come in and leave with a book in hand. However, starting a bookstore business is no easy feat. It requires careful planning, research, and execution to make it a success.
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!
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.
As the retail and e-commerce landscapes continue to grow and evolve, many entrepreneurs and online business enthusiasts are looking for ways to profit by reselling items. One of the easiest and low-budget strategies to make money by selling goods is to engage in retail arbitrage, which involves buying and reselling products for profit.
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.
In the previous article, Book Condition Ratings Explained & Compared, we’ve covered all the essentials regarding how the book condition rating system works and how different marketplaces grade used books they sell. Today, we’ll give you a few hands-on recommendations regarding the process of determining book conditions. While most book resellers know all about it from personal experience, we’re positive some beginning book resellers will find our article helpful.
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