| I was recently asked if there was any way to buy a | | | | buyer will be lucky if he/she can pick up this lot for |
| large lot of books that could be resold profitably | | | | $150,000, but they can still triple their investment as |
| online and the answer is yes, but be careful, not all | | | | these were some really nice books for an online |
| sellers of large book lots are reputable and if you buy | | | | seller. |
| a large lot unseen, or unresearched on ebay, you | | | | While I was attending the 2006 Independent Amazon |
| may end up with an expensive cord of firewood. | | | | Booksellers' Convention last month, I was told by one |
| In my book I provided the most exhaustive list of | | | | of my customers about a source for free books. All |
| wholesale and remainder book distributors that I am | | | | you have to do is register and when you get notified |
| aware of in any book on this subject. Since then I | | | | of free books being available you call and arrange to |
| have learned of a few more that have even | | | | pick them up. |
| betterdeals and larger lots of unsorted books. One in | | | | There are many sources for buying books in large |
| particular sells books by the gaylord or truckload. A | | | | quantities that can be resold profitably through the |
| gaylord is one of those bins, typically metal, that | | | | online marketplaces, it is just a matter of research to |
| allows for loading on a truck by forklift. You can buy | | | | find them. I have spent the last five years compiling |
| a single gaylord or an entire truckload of them and | | | | just such a list of reputable wholesale and remainder |
| have it shipped directly to your door. If you buy a | | | | book distributors and included the entire list in my |
| truckload, you might be expected to have a forklift | | | | book. |
| ready to unload them, so be sure you understand | | | | As a means of saying thank you to all the customers |
| the shipping terms before making final arrangements. | | | | of my book, I even started a free newsletter that is |
| Recently, I was contacted by a closeout distributor | | | | distributed monthly. It includes updates to the online |
| and told of an auction they were holding for a lot of | | | | bookselling marketplaces and new resources for |
| 18,000+ books. This was the notice for the first of | | | | wholesale and remainder book distributors, new |
| three such auctions they plan over the nextcouple | | | | third-party service providers for online booksellers, |
| months. I browsed through the spreadsheet of | | | | and anything else that my readers and I seem |
| books that were included in the auction, and the | | | | worthwhile to pass along to other online booksellers. |