#980: Selling used books is alive and well on Amazon and other outlets!
Silent Sales Machine Radio
Jim Cockrum
4.8 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Today's guest Bill Martlink manages an Amazon selling account that is a top ten account ALL TIME in regards to total transactions conducted on Amazon.com - and he's excited about the future and the possibilities of e-commerce!
His product of choice? Used books!
Part of his business model is buying books from small sellers so we discuss that as well as an opportunity.
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Today's guest Bill Martlink from WorldofBooks.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Silent Sales Machine Radio. |
| 0:04.2 | I'm Jim Cochram, and we have a guest coming on in just a few minutes. |
| 0:08.0 | So I've got a couple announcements. |
| 0:09.2 | Then we'll jump into an interview with someone who happens to be the seventh most successful seller on Amazon in seller history. |
| 0:19.3 | I'm not sure how to couch this exactly. There's only six |
| 0:21.8 | sellers. They have more transactions on Amazon than this guy. He works at a company, |
| 0:26.6 | world of books. And the product, as you might have guessed, is books. So they've sold a lot of |
| 0:34.7 | books, millions of books. He's been doing books since he was in college over 20 years ago, and he's never left that |
| 0:40.9 | arena. |
| 0:41.7 | He really knows his stuff. |
| 0:43.4 | Just to jump to the good part today, this isn't just another interview with someone who's |
| 0:47.4 | built a beautiful business and is doing really well. |
| 0:49.8 | The question I really zeroed in on with today's guest, Bill, is, is this still viable? |
| 0:56.8 | Is selling used books online on Amazon or in other fashion, is that still a viable business |
| 1:02.9 | model? |
| 1:03.7 | I was under the impression as of a few years ago because of Amazon storage fees, that books |
| 1:08.0 | had kind of lost a little bit of their glamour as an opportunity. |
| 1:11.6 | And there's a lot of people doing books as well. So I wanted to present these ideas to Bill. |
| 1:16.4 | We met in passing at Amazon Accelerate. We were both there a few months ago. He was walking past |
| 1:22.4 | me and said, hey, I think I know you. So you recognize me from somewhere. Maybe listen to the show |
| 1:26.8 | at some point, something |
| 1:27.5 | like that, irrelevant. But we connected, had a short conversation for a couple minutes, and I said, |
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