Tuesday 12 February 2008

Book Sale on Amazon

This is another top tip to raising a bit of spare cash to buy reading material. I have opened an store front account on Amazon and am selling old reading material there. From the proceeds, I can buy books for course reading.

It is really easy to set up an account and you only pay a fee to Amazon if you sell something. Unfortunately however, when you open an account, you are in competition with some sellers who push thousands of books a day. That means that you can be scuppered by their 0.01p selling price! The good news is that the fixed mail fee which Aamzon have on all book sales, is usually just a little more than cost so you do end up making something on postage.

Books stay on the site for 60 days before automatically being removed from the list.

I tend to check the prices which other sellers are listing books at before deciding how much I would like to sell my books for. If books are selling for less than I would like, I can decide not to list them or to only put them up as the prices improve.

Just for information, I have sold 5 books in as many days which may not be the sort of numbers which Amazon, Eden or Waterstones might be proud of, but for my own personal collection it ain't half bad and so long as it covers the next book on my reading list, I'm happy.

Also, for quick and easy reference I have added links to Amazon for some course reading materials. Keep an eye out for reading lists from each year of the undergraduate and post graduate courses.