Info about Old Books
Making A Profit From Old Books
People are selling advertisements, niche market publications, recipe books, and crochet and woodworking patterns as well as hundreds more items that are totally different. All of these items are taken from magazines, newspapers, and books that are plentiful and are very inexpensive.
Old prints sell exceptionally well, especially in themes like children, travel locations, music hall artists, royalty, horse racing, golf, and animals.
The earliest magazines contained a lot of prints. The best of these magazines were Sphere, Sketch, The Graphic, and Illustrated London News. All you have to do is carefully remove the prints, trim any rough edges, put them in a protective package, make them very attractive and list them on eBay.
The following tips will help you build a hugely profitable business using old books and magazines.
You should frame all of your prints to add extra value. You can search for picture frames at yard sales, garage sales, collectors’ fairs, and flea markets. You should make the effort to attend auctions you can buy cases of frames at very inexpensive prices.
Have any black and white engravings and prints colored by hand and matted and framed to add to the value of the cheapest and most common print.
Provide a Certificate of Authenticity. This is only a piece of paper that certifies that the print is the original that is taken from a particular source on a specific date. It makes the certificate look better if you add a decorative border. The certificate will always be taped to the back of the print so that it cannot be taken off and put on another print that was obtained from another source.
Make a very descriptive listing for your print including any details that will likely attract bidders. Include any word that might be used in a search to find items like yours.
Be sure that your listing includes source, theme, date, and age of your print.
If your old original book is special make sure that you include that it is a first edition or a limited edition in your description for your listing. It might make a difference to people who view your listing between making or losing a sale.
Be very careful when you are taking the prints out of the publication. The best way to do this is to open the book about one half of the way through it, bend it back so that the front and back cover touch. This makes it easy to weaken or break the spine and make the pages looser.
You can get high quality mounts on eBay at a very inexpensive price. Do a search for items that are available locally because it is not worth looking through all of the long distance products. Use keywords like photo mounts, or mounts, and wait for a list of suppliers to be returned. Some will sell their items by auction and some will offer their items at a Buy It Now price.
When you locate an acceptable supplier stay with that supplier and you can even purchase there items without going through eBay. However, stay within the rules eBay has set.
You can pick from many different items to sell from old books and magazines. You are not limited to just prints. This only takes a few minutes of work and can generate you a very large profit margin.