Sell Books Online – Get Cash for Textbooks
Ever since I wrote about selling textbooks online, a lot of people have read and used that advice. It’s definitely a popular post on this site.
Since the book selling season is approaching again (it’s almost April!), I thought you guys might appreciate a quick glance at the process.
We definitely don’t want anyone hoarding books like the guy in POSSESSED. If you haven’t watched that short documentary, do yourself a favor and check it out.
How to sell books online
My previous post focused on maximing your cash. But for this one, let’s just look at the basic process. Getting cash for your textbooks is quite simple.
In my opinion, BookByte is the best site for selling your books, and you can even buy textbooks there for 25% to 45% off.
Just follow these quick steps to get some textbook cash:
- Go to BookByte
- Enter the ISBN’s from the textbooks you want to sell
- Print your shipping label and packing list
- Mail in your books (they pay the shipping!)
- Get your cash in about 10 business days
Sell even more books
If you want to really increase your cash, you can become a volume seller. Collect textbooks at your school, send them to BookByte, and get paid in cash.
I think an enterprising college student could do well with this model. You could setup a table at your school to collect books. Have a laptop there to lookup the BookByte cash price for the used textbooks. Then give fellow students a little less cash. You do the work of sending them in, and you can pocket the difference. I’ll bet you could still beat the bookstore’s buy back price.
Have you ever tried to sell books online? What was your experience?
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19 Responses to “Sell Books Online – Get Cash for Textbooks”
March 19th, 2008
When I was in college I sold my books around campus. I wonder if I’d have been better off looking online? Oh well 🙂
March 19th, 2008
@Matt – The benefit to selling online is you have a broader marketplace. If you sell on campus, the bookstores typically just base prices on the need for the books on that campus. But if you sell online, the need can be based on many campuses. Higher demand = more cash. 🙂
March 20th, 2008
I have a few piles of books, and I have been thinking about what to do with them. Selling them online looks like a great idea, Thanks!
March 22nd, 2008
I think that is a nice idea to sell books in internet, easily and quickly.
March 26th, 2008
Great Idea! I have many books from university and college. To sell them on the internet is a great idea! Thanks 🙂
March 27th, 2008
per internet we can always have a great choice of books, a great possibility for all who like reading books.
March 27th, 2008
Thanks for sharing! Text books are so expensive now and it is really difficult to sell them on campus or back to the book store! I have TONS of books left over that I could never get rid of — I’ll have to look into this!
March 29th, 2008
thanks for the idea…next month i will move into another city and i have so many books which i don´t need anymore…so the idea to sell it online sound like a good one…thanks ^^
May 12th, 2008
I never thought selling books online could be so simple. Another lucrative thing could be seling textbooks via ebay. I would imagine that to be a bit more labor intensive and time consuming.
May 16th, 2008
@Dental – Yeah, I think eBay is a great option for selling some things. But textbooks might be a little cumbersome to manage in the auction format.
May 23rd, 2008
My website, http://www.sellbackyourbook.com generally offers quite a bit more then bookbyte, check it out.
Glen
July 30th, 2008
Bigwords can also be good for comparing lots of sites at once. Here are some more tips for selling college textbooks.
August 10th, 2008