Amazon Fba - is it worth to send inventory to Amazon? Book seller
For those of you who sell books using Amazon FBA, do you find it worth the costs, especially with slower-moving inventory? How do you handle long-term storage fees, and have you seen a significant boost in sales by having Prime eligibility?
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Seller_QuM1AZgzfU9x4
FBA isn't really the place for slower moving inventory now. Amazon have done many things to force FBA sellers to be "lean and mean".
There is certainly a price uplift on many used books with FBA compared to FBM though.
Seller_FQHkqHJI5SqTh
Might want to read this thread.
https://sellercentral.amazon.co.uk/seller-forums/discussions/t/a4e9900e-a1ff-43ec-9d7d-06337c1fa9c8
I would have thought a majority of professional used booksellers no longer consider Amazon a particularly productive site to sell books full stop.
Seller_58y2FhNkywdyp
slower moving stuff NO, faster selling is ok but you have to be really picky on prices as for lower value books you need to be double the self fulfilled items to make the same money.
Seller_gpqqZ5FYuNK50
Depends on the size of the book and how many sell per month.
FBM much cheaper often half the price to post it compared to the FBA price.
Used to be FBA was always cheaper than postage but it's almost always more expensive
Seller_1aSp9CxiMNqYj
A word of advice - if you plan to sell books on Amazon and make it remotely worthwhile, you must use Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP)
Without KDP, you cannot advertise, cannot have a brand store, cannot have A+ content or enjoy any sort of priority for the featured offer. Monopolistic? Highly. But this is Amazon.
