Book Pricing – How to Determine Book Values Part 3

So, you’ve decided you want to sell books online after all, but need to find out what price you’d have to set on each to make a profit.  So, where do you even start?  Here’s some ideas of how you could get to the numbers you need.

(The following examples are based on selling on eBay as of November 2008, with the fees in effect at that time and the given that only PayPal will be accepted from now on, and are only a guideline.  You’ll need to put in your own actual expenses to get your possible income/profit.)

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Which One Should You Eat?

Someone’s finally written a book that helps you pick between the foods at various restaurants and from all the choices at the grocery store that LOOK so great (and delicious), that is, until you read the nutrition label… But who has time to read and memorize hundreds of packages, just to get to the right ones for your needs? And what about food at restaurants, where you don’t get a nutrition break-down for each item so you’re eating ‘blind’?

The book’s called EAT THIS, NOT THAT! and here’s an excerpt from the book description:
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Not a Cookbook, but a Tastebook

Check it out – someone’s finally figured out that most cookbooks follow the old 80/20 rule: out of 100 recipes, there’s probably only 20 you really enjoy and will make over and over, that is, if you’re lucky. Most likely there may be only 10 or so in each book that you can use.

So you end up buying 5 or more cookbooks just to get 100 great recipes. With cookbooks running about $15-35 each, that’s $75-165 to get what you want!

I think it’s neat that Tastebook has found a way for you to finally let you put together your own customized cookbook with all YOUR favorite recipes in it, all for only $34.95. You can pick and choose from their 25,000 tried and true recipes, or mix and match with your own to create a truly personalized culinary treat. Plus you can add favorite photos to the book. And as your tastes change or grow, the book can change with you.

Looking for a gift to give friends or family or want to create a collectible that you can pass down from generation to generation? A Tastebook definitely makes a great gift. You can even make ‘themed’ Tastebooks for the big events in your life – weddings, anniversaries, baby showers, family reunions, bridal showers, and more.

Check out this great Thanksgiving Recipe book:

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Harry Potter Book 7 – Split Personality?

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, aka Harry Potter Book 7, may get more screen justice than ORDER OF THE PHOENIX: David Heyman, producer, is expected to announce that rather than trying to chop the last huge book down to movie size, two movies will be made of HALLOWS to accommodate the entire last installment in the J. K. Rowling book series.
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Book Pricing – How to Determine Book Values Part 2

So I see you’re still interested in how to determine book values and Part One of Book Pricing didn’t scare you off (or completely bore you…) LOL

So now you want to know where to start in your hunt for how to price your used, collectible and/or rare books.

First things, first, and one of the most important things I’ve found people don’t pay much attention to: asking price is not always selling price or true value. Too many times, I see people selling books offline (brick and mortar stores) that use prices from certain online resources – eBay, Biblio.com, BOOKSAMILLION.COM, Abebooks.com,
Amazon.com, Powell Books and more – that don’t always have a basis in reality, but are based on wishful thinking (or sometimes even typos!) You have to learn how to ‘weigh’ the information, and most times, use more than one source to get as accurate (and realistic) a value you can for your books.
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Book Pricing – How to Determine Book Values Part 1

A question I get asked a lot when people find out we sell used, modern first editions, and rare books on eBay is how we set our book pricing, or, in other words, how do we determine book values for the items we sell (and sometimes buy for our own collection).

Whether you’re going to sell books you own, going to search for books to sell, or just want to insure what you have for its actual value, you need to have some way to figure it out, don’t you?

To answer the question about book pricing, I tell them it’s part art and part science.
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