How to Ship College Textbooks to Amazon

Welcome, Anon.

It’s that time of the year where students are in school and all textbook resellers are gearing up for August. The majority of my time right now is being spent purchasing textbooks and starting to prep my inventory for the summer.

For those who are new, the high level game plan of college textbook reselling is simple: load up inventory from various sources during the semester and sell to college students via Amazon FBA as they’re returning to schoool.

Click here for my step-by-step guide to college textbook reselling where we go through the process start to finish

As someone who’s still newer to college textbook reselling, I accumulated my largest inventory of books to ship in over the last couple of months. This week, I had 93 books to send in.

With the help of my P2, we were done within 2 hours due to our efficient shipping setup.

As Amazon processes my shipments, I’ll spend the next couple of weeks setting pricing rules for the book (article to come) before the students return in August. With the big shipment going in this week, I figured what better opportunity than to do a deep dive into the shipping process.

We’ll going to start buy reviewing the following:

• Equipment Needed

• Steps to ship

• Tracking your shipments

Side Note: if you’re new to reselling on Amazon, you should be sending in shipments yourself and avoiding third-party prep centers. As a new seller you don’t know what items you’ll be selling and how Amazon processes work. I would highly encourage anyone new to roll up their sleeves and ship in themselves until it doesn’t become manageable.