Selling books

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My shelves are full of books I dont want to read again. Most are modern and have ISBN.

EbayUK doesnt fill in your listing off the ISBN info only EBay USA :(

So I;d have to take a picture and nick the amazon/wikiepdia info for every book (5k+)

Is there any other sites that are good for selling books?
 
The one you mentioned?

I've sold plenty on there. Although you won't get much for the popular stuff.
 
Facebook just added a marketplace feature that'll automatically fill in the details from the ISBN.

2 potential problems of course:
1) It's a largely student audience and aimed at academic textbooks
2) You could well be one of the people determined never to sell their soul to facebook :p

Of course, I guess there's also 3) Fraction of the audience you'd get from an eBay listing.

Just a thought.
 
amazon marketplace is good because you can tag it to a book that they actually sell, therefore you don't have to come up with a picture and description.

You'll have to price them fairly cheap to sell but it has a mandatory £2.75 postage which you get most of, so its not too bad.
 
Hope you don't mind a slight hijack but I have a related question. I have a book that I have seen selling through dealers for £120. It is only a normal paperback but has been out of print for a while and is obviously still in demand. Does anyone know anything about selling rare books? Am I best simply going to a dealer direct or should I ebay? - I suspect that the number of people willing to pay a high price for it are pretty limited.
 
I sold all my textbooks on Amazon and was surprised that all of them were sold in less than a week, eventhough the prices I set were high compare to those on ebay. It's very easy to sell but Amazon does charge a lot - 17.25% of final sale price.
 
Why not just create a list and put them on here first?

I don't know what types of books they are but there's quite a lot of diverse people here with lots of different tastes (dibs on Fantasy such as Dragonlance, Gemmell, etc).

Another idea I guess other than that there was a book databse thing that would download the info off the web and then you could export a list.

http://www.collectorz.com/book/

Does what you're looking for but costs £25ish



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