High Quality Cheap Books From Rich Areas?

Hi I have extensive experience in that business, I would buy thousands of books per month.(just had a baby so i cant scout much) Just sell them on amazon, I think in the UK they now have Amazon FBA. Its their fulfillment service, basically you buy the books, list them, and send them all to amazon, and they warehouse , pick, pack and ship the items to your customers when they sell. You can even list on other sites and amazon will still handle the fulfillment. Pretty cool business model. Works with all sorts of products not just books. But, books typically have the highest margins.

Do some searches for book scouting, fba book selling, etc... Buy a bluetooth barcode scanner and use a pda and you can scan the barcodes of books and know when one is worth buying instantly. With that system you can scan 1000 books in an hour, and usually 10% of them are worth $10 or more. If you can buy them for $1 then you are off to the races.... I started a site about it but havnt touched it in a long time, and only have one post right now. its iSellUsedBooksOnline.com | Tips and tricks on how to sell used books online

ya well unless you know about "old books" i would say stay away from them, if the dust jacket is missing its likely worth a lot less. the tiniest thing can make what seems to be a valuable book, actually worthless. I have a 1st edition james and the giant peach in amazing condition, a 1 word difference makes it only worth $100 instead of $5,000-$12,000! if you want to actually make money doing it you need to go to large book sales held by libraries or community groups and buy commodity books, things that are newer and in demand and have barcodes that can be scanned. My favorite are text books but they can be hard to come across. You can make money, i did about 60k on amazon my first year part time (2-3 days a week) but its alot of work. Now I just "flip" textbooks here and there. meaning I buy textbooks from sellers on amazon then turn around and sell them at a profit through Amazons FBA program. By doing that I buy books for about $5 shipped, then sell then for $25 to $75. that is also time consuming and not too scaleable since the books that I can do that with are limited. The timing is seasonal too since textbook buying season is pretty much only twice a year.