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Paperbacks still rule: Who said e-books make paper books obsolete?

There are few steps that you need to know before you go about selling your books.

Time changes and so does technology. Now with the tech boom you can do a lot many things which you might not have thought earlier. One of them is the online method of selling books. The past relates to publishers and book shops, which dealt with the selling of books, which might be story books, novel, reference material as well as textbooks. Today you just need to click the mouse of your computer and you can log on to the sites of various publication houses who deal with books both buying and selling.

What actually do you need to do to sell books online?

It so happens that you are a writer and you write text books on various subjects. Now you want to the sell textbooks. You go about writing the book and get a printer to print your stuff. Now it is ready to be sold. There are few steps that you need to know before you go about selling your books. Once you have decided on the site you want to sell your books, the first thing that you do is use the barcode or the ISBN Number that appears by the side or mostly at the bottom of the back cover page. Generally what happens once you enter the barcode you get a quote from them (that is the site you have selected). If the price seems ok you just have to pack the books and post them free of cost to the address that is given in the site. That is all. Now all you have to do is to wait for the payment. Once they receive the package they pay you the very next day.

You can even sell old books online:

This is for the books that you have written, apart from these you can even sell off the old text books which you do not use and you do not know what to do. All you do is check out the publishing house who lets you sell textbooks also. Get in touch with them once you make a list of the unwanted books which you want to sell. They again give you a quote. It might so happen that you like them and if you do not then you can go ahead and negotiate about the rate. Once it is done then all is left to be done is packing them and sending them over. They tend to pay you the very next day; however it depends on various publishers and their mode of payment.

So with the advancement of technology you have the privilege to sell the textbooks that you are writing and you have a hassle free dealing with the ones who are ready to buy your books. At the same time you can get rid of the unwanted books and make room on the shelf while you sell them online. This gives you extra income from the books that you did not know what to do with, while you get to sell them online.

( Source : deccan chronicle )
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