Buying remainders and used books by the shipping container is a great way to build your collection because you are paying as little as 4 cents a pound for around 60,000 pounds of books. Thrift books sells shipping containers of books. So does Book Driver.
We aim to provide books to Kenya, New York City, Detroit and Colorado and have several samples of wholesale books on our Ebay shop.
Book retailers discount remainders books and will sell the books by the truckload because they can’t sell them back to publishers. These are in Like New condition so coupled with book donation and used books bought at garage sales among many other sources.
Saving on recycling costs might be a reason to pay more for books from shipping containers because if the supplier can reduce encyclopedia, dictionaries, coffee table books, and out of date used textbooks, that can save 10 to 20% for them.
Even if you buy one shipping container it would take about three weeks for a three person to process that and at a possible retail value of $30,000 or $40,000 that plus the cost of recycling ($500 for a couple rolls off dumpsters) can work. Of course if you have a cargo bay, efficient online book selling is made even easier. Still have to have a place to put the books out.
We have a kids book container we are selling that is ideal for certain overseas markets our wholesale lots can be valuable to a book seller who sells to used book stores, online booksellers or directly to customers.
If you work for a friends of the library or school library we’d love to co host a book drive. Besides picking up library donations, we also can help set up friends of the library groups and supply lots of books to rural libraries. Also a great use of a shipping containers of books.
Volunteers can even earn $2 a book bonuses. Check out Myemptyshelves.com and check out how that works.
Also, check out this eBay home book store video about selling all your books on eBay and making way more.