Book Pricing – How to Determine Book Values Part 3
November 8, 2008 by Spotlight-on WM
Filed under AUTHORS/BOOKS
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.)
Book Pricing – How to Determine Book Values Part 2
March 9, 2008 by Spotlight-on WM
Filed under AUTHORS/BOOKS
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,
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Book Pricing – How to Determine Book Values Part 1
March 9, 2008 by Spotlight-on WM
Filed under AUTHORS/BOOKS
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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