How Does an Online Bookstore Work?
Online Bookstores An online bookstore may sell new books, used books or both. Some businesses that sell books online do business only online. Other businesses have a traditional brick and mortar store as well. Selling books online expands sales opportunities, because the customer base is worldwide instead of local like in the case of traditional brick and mortar bookstores. Selling Books Online book stores sell books on their website, community bookseller websites or both. When an online bookstore sells through their own website, they list the books on the site and keep 100 percent of the profits. When an online bookstore sells on a community bookseller website, they lose part of the profit to that website. The community bookseller website takes a cut of the book sales. The benefit to selling on a community bookseller website is that these sites are popular and they receive high numbers of daily traffic. The high numbers of traffic increase the likelihood that the books will sell. So e
