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Green, E-Commerce Used Book Retailer

This business recycles books. After acquiring used books by the truckload, the books are processed using sophisticated work-flow management software that allows high volume throughput. Good quality books are listed on Amazon, eBay, Half.com, ABE, and Alibris. The remaining books are sold to recyclers. There is less than 1% waste created by the business.

E-Commerce: doesnʼt require a high-price location; doesnʼt have to be open on evenings and weekends; and has an international instead of a local market.

A high degree of systematization make this business easy to learn & operate. The strong systems allow the business to hire low skilled easy to replace employees.

This is a green business: Books are a huge store of greenhouse gas. Carbon dioxide is released if books are burned or decompose in landfills. This business recycles over 100 tons of books each month, offsetting carbon dioxide emitted by burning 50,000 gallons of gas.

One of the biggest opportunities for growing this business is simply to operate it as a full-time business. The current owner puts in only 10-15 hours a week of time operating this business. Full-time management efforts may lead to significant revenue and profit improvements. There are a variety of other opportunities for growth such as selling higher margin used CDs and DVDs and replacing portions of the current expensive licensed software with a custom developed software to reduce expenses.