Bookscouting, By the Book: A Manual for Cash-Strapped Bibliophiles Paperback - 2012

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From the Back Cover: How would you like to be paid cash every week to collect a personal library in your spare time? This book can teach you how to do just that without the stress of answering email or meeting any deadlines. If 15 hours a week of hunting books doesn't sound like fun, then this is not the book for you; but if you're a book hound like the author you'll find a method here to turn just such a hobby into a paying semi-profession, all while reading what you want for free. Traditional Bookscouting is a proven and realistic method of building a library and paying oneself to do so, that doesn't involve selling books via the internet. People have been doing it for hundreds of years. A Traditional Book Scout never has to answer email or box up books for mailing - he makes his own hours and pays his own way, showing a weekly and yearly profit while creating a significant personal collection of titles on the side. Webster W. will teach you the hard-bought knowledge of Book Trading that he has amassed in more than ten years as a serious collector and Book Scout. And he'll clearly break it down into relevant sections that you'll be sure to remember. You'll learn the details and numbers of the trade, and see why scouting secondhand and used books offers so much more variety than any pedestrian browsing at a chain mega-store. Finally, there's a strong philosophy running through the book that upfront honesty and simple deals are just as much of a key to profits as they are to a healthy spirit - a low-stress method of living that has served the author well both as a business person and as a friend.

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