Basing your business around the Amazon “Buy Box” is a road to ruin.

In this article, I give the top 3 reasons Amazon sellers shouldn’t depend on or expect the Buy Box, and why any Amazon seller that does has built their business on a castle of sand – and why they don’t really have a business at all.

This is it: Everything Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) booksellers need to know for textbook season.

I’m going big in this monster textbook tutorial for FBA sellers:

• Peak days for textbook season.
• What matters (and doesn’t matter) to textbook buyers.
• How to price textbooks.
• How to reprice textbooks.

And a lot more. Read on…

On the one year anniversary, I reflect on lessons learned after 12 months of teaching (and doing) online book arbitrage.

• Reflections on the first year of sourcing books in my pajamas.
• My 11-step formula for combing Amazon manually for arbitrage opportunity.
• Top 3 Secrets I’ve learned over the last year of online book arbitrage.

• Wondering how fast your inventory should sell?
• Want a simple formula for knowing how much of your investment you’ll get back, and when?

Introducing: “The 30/60 Rule.”

PS: Big webinar Thursday: “How to outsource your Amazon business” (save your spot here)

As we enter the January textbook buying surge, here are 4 things most people get wrong about textbooks.

If you believe any of these 4 things, it’s costing you money.

Here they are…

The most overlooked sourcing of free Amazon inventory is the garbage. Here’s everything you need to know.

In this article:

Everything you need to know about dumpster diving for books.
Captured on video: me dumpster diving.

This is going to be a weird one.

One more reminder about my (free) webinar on online book arbitrage – buying cheap books on Amazon, and reselling them FBA.

Register here

The first in a two-part series on how to see the FBA offers on your scanning app that Amazon doesn’t want you to see. (Guest post from Nathan Holmquist) Introduction by me, Peter Valley. Amazon sourcing apps aren’t showing you FBA data anymore. That’s why the next two posts are important.

Why the number of items in your inventory is virtually meaningless.

I’m a huge fan of selling weird, oddball things on Amazon. Everything from Rolling Stones mugs to cassette tapes. Somehow, as much as I test the limits of “weird and obscure”, (almost) everything sells. With the release of Blindspot Profits on Sunday night, I wanted to bring in a man who wrote the book on one slice of the “weird and obscure pie”. I’m talking about reselling used board games on Amazon.