Sunday today, so I’ve been out buying books, painting and
god bothering, feeding the demand for East Kent history books here in Ramsgate
is the main issue.
I should like to point out here that I usually want to buy
books and booklets about East Kent, especially those published before about
1997 and especially those about The Isle of Thanet.
This raises the question I get asked in one shape or form,
which is roughly: - I have some books which I would like to either turn into
money or different books?
There are several options with selling books. You can take
them all to the boot fair, but most of the people buying books at bootfairs
will be buying them to resell, unless the books are recent popular and low
value. You can sell them on the internet, but if you look at the completed
listing on Ebay, you will see that most books listed on the internet don’t
actually sell. There are various online sellers including Amazon who will buy
you books from you, but the amount the pay is usually pretty low.
An issue here is that most of the books that are worth more
than the cost of posting them are in the hands of book collectors who are
regularly in secondhand bookshops and understand the situation.
Many years ago I was young and suffered from acute
skintitis, this is a pecuniary disease common around places like Graduate Lane,
artist and musicians are particularly susceptible due to the vast quantities of
beer needed to stimulate the creative juices. I was learning to be a mechanic
of sorts, so things could have been worse, the cure I applied was buying books
from one shop and selling them to another. I always found it interesting that
as often as not one shop with a book worth £30 would be very nice to me when
selling it to me for £2 while the next shop would be quite offhand when buying
it from me for £5 particularly if I wanted £10.
My take is that whether you are buying or selling books, you
are a customer either way. If you want to sell me some books, either bring them
to my bookshop and if I want to buy them, then I will make you and offer, or if
you have a price in mind I will try to meet it or alternatively you can
photograph the spines of your books, as they are on you shelves and email me the
photos or share them with me.
Another good starting point would be to go to a secondhand
bookshop and have a good look at what they sell and how much they sell it for,
if you come to my bookshop to do this it will probably help if you talk to us
about what you want to achieve.
One thing you can also do is to look at the
photos of the books that I put out for sale on my bookshop blog here is the
link http://michaelsbookshop.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/catastrophe-in-bookshop.html
to last Saturday’s and clicking on the
Older Post link at the bottom of each page will show you more.
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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.