How to Sell Books Online

Part 1: Choosing a price.

Many books (especially paperbacks) already have store prices on the back. If the book you're selling is new, you can actually use that as your selling point. However, if your book is used -or if you just want to get more potential customers- you should sell under that. For example: A book normally costs $9.99. It is used but still in great condition. I would sell it for $7. If it was used but only in good condition, maybe 1 or 2 pencil marks and some page wear, I'd sell it for $5. You should never try to sell a book for more than market price unless it is a special, limited, or first edition.

If you do have a rare edition, for most books, it can get you $5-$10 more. However, certain books with rare editions can get you far more. Be sure to do your research (or just look around to see how much other people are selling the same exact books for).

Do note that some books are naturally rare. Those can sell for an enormous amount.

Part 2: Telling apart rare editions

1. Special and Limited editions can easily be told apart. Simply look at the back cover, the front cover, or the book info page (with all the publishing information) and see if "limited edition" or "special edition" is written anywhere.

On certain occurrences, there may be other types of editions, such as "revised" or "renewed". Those are not usually considered to be rare editions and therefore will sell for around the book's market price.

2. First Editions are slightly harder. While you can still look on the covers, more oft than not, 1^st edition will not be written (but sometimes they will so look anyway). Unfortunately, you can NOT look at the book's publishing page for the words "first edition". Many books will have "first edition" written on the publishing page even if they're not. It's very confusing, but they're actually talking about when the first edition was published, not about the current book's edition. In order to find out what edition it is, look for the numbers.

Many books will have sequential -though they don't have to be sequential- numbers on them (e.g.: "4 5 6 7"). For this example, the edition of the book would be edition 4.