One way to work from home which is VERY easy is to sell your used books on Amazon. It's completely free to set up and very easy to operate!

You just log into your Amazon account - which is free to create - and go to the page of any book you own. There'll be a button right on that page to sell your used book.

I put up a few books last week. I've already sold and sent one, and I got an order for another of my books today!

So all I do is pop the book in the mail, and Amazon plunks money into my bank account a few days later. It's super easy!

Highly recommended. Post here if you'd like help with any of the steps.

That sounds almost too easy. Any downsides? What kind of money do you end up with, like a buck or two?

It is very easy. I do it myself, they just charge 99 cents per book. You keep the rest. =) They even give you shipping costs.

I sold a copy of

Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium

that James (my son) had read and not wanted any more.

I listed the price at $4.19 which is what it sold at.

Buyer's Price: $4.19
Shipping Credit: $3.99
Amazon Commission: $-2.97
Your Earnings: $5.21

So they charged $2.97 as their commission. I imagine it might be a sliding scale based on the sale price of the book.

Their shipping credit was $3.99. It was $2.38 for media mail postage, plus about 50 cents say for the envelope I sent it in.

The second book I sold was a copy of

Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (New Approaches to European History)

this was one of James' college books.

I listed the price at $12.95 which it sold at.

Buyer's Price: $12.95
Shipping Credit: $3.99
Amazon Commission: $-4.28
Your Earnings: $12.66

Again, the Amazon fee was much more than 99 cents - but it was apparently because the sale price was higher as well. Again, this went media mail so it was $2.38 for the mailing postage, and perhaps 50 cents for the envelope it was shipped in.

Wow, that does sound like a simple and easy way to get rid of books and make some extra cash. I do have a lot of books i can sell.

Any ideas what types of books to try first? Does it matter what condtions they are in? Novels, non-fiction?

I hate to get rid of books, but there may well be some that I could sell on.

I just sold a third book, this was a cheap one and if you look at the price info it's very interesting -

Item: Regarding the Pain of Others [Paperback] by Sontag, Susan
Condition: Used - Like New
Condition Note: slight reside from price stickers on back cover Listing ID: 1207E7ZSX5P
SKU: SV-N9PE-1MCT
Quantity: 1
Order date: 12/07/2009
Buyer's Price: $2.75
Shipping Credit: $3.99
Amazon Commission: $-2.75
Your Earnings: $3.99


so below a certain point you don't earn money from the book sale - but their shipping credit is high enough that you'll still be making money.

PDM - I still have MANY bookcases of books in the house. I am only starting to make a dent, these are James' college books I'm getting rid of

Jill - you list the condition, you put in whatever shape it is in. It's SUPER easy to list them so I'd go into Amazon, search for a few books you own, and look at what they're going for in the used column. I always list mine a few pennies below whatever the cheapest one is.

So I'd start with the ones that you really don't want at all and go from there.

This does sound super easy. I have a HUGE HUMONGOUS stack of books to enter in. I think I will save it for after the holidays, so I won't overwhelm myself with too many new tasks.

Right now I am concentrating on:

- getting my home stuff in order (from storage #1 - the nnow-empty AZ one) we have many bins everywhere...
- my new hobby of can recycling
- starting to meditate
- getting ahead through the holidays on articles for my blog topic

I will be very excited to start listing books and sending them out. It sounds much more profitable than trying to sell them at all the used bookstores.