Selling Your Books To Other Textbook Companies

Whenever you want to sell to textbook companies  you simply go to their websites and check to see if there is a market for the books you would like to sell. If there is and if the purchase price offered by the company is agreeable you can go ahead and ship the books to them. Then you wait for your check to arrive from the textbook company. Generally speaking it takes about a month to receive your payment for the books.

When you sell to other textbook companies they often provide printable shipping labels that you affix to your shipping box. I avoid selling to companies that want to reimburse me for shipping cost. Whenever I have
dealt with companies which promise to reimburse shipping cost they have always found an excuse to only pay back a portion of what it actually cost to send them the books. Or not reimburse me for the cost at all.

Here is a short list of companies who will purchase books from you. Be aware that textbook companies pay less for books than you can make for them by listing them on Amazon.com or Half.com . The only time I sell to companies like the ones listed below is when I have far too many copies of a particular title.

•  www.bigwords.com
•  www.valorebooks.com
• www.ecampus.com
• www.Bookbyte.com
• www.webuytextbooks.com
• http://buyback.abebooks.com
• www.cash4books.net

You can offer your books for sale to multiple textbooks companies conveniently and at once through a single site. The site is located at: www.bigwords.com .

Updating The Prices Of Your Books

There will often be other individuals and companies selling the same books that you are attempting to sell. The book which is selling for the least amount of money will appear first in the search results when someone types in the IBN on Amazon or Half.com. For this reason you must always try to sell your books at a cheaper price than others who are attempting to sell their copies of the same book.

You do this by regularly updating the prices of the books in your inventory. Drop the price of your book .01 (one cent) lower than the lowest price listed by other sellers. For example, lets say seller XYZ is selling a copy of Intermediate Algebra for $35.00. XYZ’s $35.00 sales price is lower than all other sellers of the same book. XYZ’s copy of the book will be offered for sale first as the result of an ISBN search. Simply because XYZ has the lowest sales price. You must update the price of your copy of Intermediate Algebra to $34.99. This will make your copy of the book .01 lower than seller XYZ’s price. Now your copy of Intermediate Algebra will appear before every one else's whenever a buyer goes to the site searching for a copy of Intermediate Algebra. Buyers often purchase the least expensive book listed. Even if they will only save one cent. I update the prices of the books in my inventory every 2-3 days. There is currently 416 individual titles in my inventory. It takes me about 1 hour to update all 416 book prices.

Three Business Days To Ship Orders

When a book is purchased from you through Amazon.com or Half.com you will be sent an email notifying you that you have received an order which must be filled.  You will have up to 3 business days to prepare the book(s) for shipping and to get them into the mail and on their way to the customer.  Your books will be sent at Media Mail rates through the United States Postal Service.  This is by far the least expensive way to ship books.  The shipping amount that the customer pays you when they order your book will be based on USP Media Mail rates.  After you mail off your order yo may be required to send a confirmation email to your customer letting them know that their order has been shipped.  This is very easy to do and only involves a couple of keystrokes on your part.

Every now and then a book will get lost in the mail and you may have to send a replacement book to the customer or provide a refund for the order.  This is a rare occurrence but can and sometimes does happen.  For orders of $20 dollars or more I pay for Post Office delivery confirmation at my own expense.  In the event that the book gets lost it can be tracked if it has delivery confirmation.  This is only my way of doing things.  You may elect not to add delivery confirmation to any of your book orders. If you feel confident that a book will arrive safely without delivery confirmation that will be your call.  Because it is your textbook business you can do most things however you want.