Selling Textbooks Online
May 1st, 2007 by Eric
Selling your textbooks online is a great way to avoid getting ripped off by your university book store. Another great thing about selling books online is the opportunity to sell back books the bookstore won’t even take back. Not all professors change books at the same time, so you have a greater chance of selling your books online once a new edition comes out. There are a number of sites providing textbook selling, but the two most popular are amazon.com and half.com.
The key to selling your textbooks online is the ISBN. Using the ISBN of your book ensures that the proper edition is listed. The slick thing about using your ISBN with half.com and amazon.com is that the whole process is automated. Just type in your ISBN and a listing is created for you with a picture of the book and description.
The shipping fees are somewhat steep, but you are able to reach a much broader audience and get more than the $5 the bookstore will give you.
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