For the past five years I have been selling books online as a supplemental income. In that time I have found dramatic Springtime increases in the number of good quality books available in my local library Friends of the Library fundraising shelves, the local thrift stores, and the clearance shelves of the local chain bookstore. I can only attribute this to a large influx of donations from traditional Spring-cleaning.

If you are contemplating getting into online bookselling, now is the time, for two reasons.

First, it is the best time of the year to acquire inventory from the sources I listed above and there are many more library book sales in the Spring and Summer.

Second, this is an industry that is growing rapidly and those that get into it early will be able to establish an inventory and reputation that can survive and flourish when others procrastinate and flounder. The industry is still relatively young, but the attention it is getting owing to the low risk, small investment, and high profit margins, is adding droves of new sellers each day.

That said, if you are still on the fence, don't wait too long and miss the inventory opportunities of the next few months.

If you would like to learn more about online bookselling, visit:

http://www.online-bookselling.com

Or email Michael at: mike@online-bookselling.com

Michael Mould

Michael Mould is a licensed professional engineer in the State of Washington and by day is a Flight Test engineer. Several years ago, to earn a supplemental income, he and his wife started an online-bookselling business to finance their shared travel hobby. As a consequence of the bookselling success, several friends of friends asked to learn the business and Mike coached them to be successful online booksellers as well.

The requests and coaching became overwhelming and Mike decided to write a book about online bookselling that captured everything he could put in writing about the subject. The result, "Online-Bookselling: A Practical Guide with Detailed Explanations and Insightful Tips," [CD-ROM ISBN 1599714876, Paperback ISBN 1427600708] was made available in February 2006 with the initial CD-ROM release.

Being an engineer (a.k.a. someone that enjoys torturing data and making it conform to the likes of graphs and charts) and having a dislike for spending time filling out tax forms, Mike developed "Bookkeeping for Booksellers," [CD ISBN 1427600694] a 19 sheet linked Excel Workbook that did all of the record keeping for his online bookselling business. Also being one that did not like to see only the numbers, Mike incorporated 55 graphs so that he could see at a glance how his online bookselling business was performing.

All of these works have received very positive reviews and Mike has really enjoyed the feedback and correspondence with his customers. Since he also enjoys writing very much, you can expect additional works on this topic as well as others.