If Amazon is selling your book, make sure that you go into the Marketplace used book section and list your book for sale yourself. You can underprice the list price and make more than your usual trade percentage if the book is ordered directly through Amazon via the usual channels.
There are at least three effective ways to use the Marketplace section:
- You can sell brand NEW books as direct from the publisher, shipping direct the same day.
Many people will value that service assuming you can provide it. - You can sell damaged, returned, or not quite perfect books in the USED section. Its not full retail, but its a great return on otherwise unsalable books.
- Finally, you can also list copies in the COLLECTIBLE section as “autographed by the author”. You can also offer to personalize for buyers, since you will get their email when the order is placed.