As October is officially over, I thought I’d share my October 2007 income results. This month the sites pulled in $80.13, almost 30% more than the previous high month (August 2007 @ $49.05). Here is the breakdown by income stream:… Read More »October 2007 – best month to date
So, you have some books laying around? Think selling them online could make you come cash and clear out some space? It’s definitely a possibility, but where should you sell them? There are five major options for the amateur bookseller: Half.com, Amazon, eBay, ABE and Alibris. All five have their strengths and weaknesses, but my biggest concern when looking at selling my extra books was the cost. Seller’s fees, shipping, etc. can take a toll on the bottom line. So I set out to see who has the most seller-friendly pricing structure. This what I came up with:
| Selling | Profit at: | ||||
| Price | Half.com | Amazon | Ebay | Alibris* | ABE** |
| $5.00 | $4.21 | $2.79 | $0.74 | -$0.16 | $0.23 |
| $25.00 | $21.21 | $19.79 | $19.99 | $15.84 | $17.53 |
| $55.00 | $48.36 | $45.29 | $49.02 | $39.84 | $43.48 |
| $125.00 | $112.46 | $104.79 | $116.69 | $95.84 | $104.03 |
| $300.00 | $277.46 | $253.54 | $286.00 | $235.84 | $255.40 |
| $1,000.00 | $949.96 | $848.54 | $963.25 | $795.84 | $860.90 |
| * $19 annual fee divided into a hypothetical 300 books a year, with a $1/book charge for ‘basic’ plan ** $25 monthy fee divided into a hypothetical 25 books |
So you figure out that some lowlife is grabbing your RSS feed and using it to populate his MFA splog. Maybe you used copyscape (www.copyscape.com) to find him, maybe you were alerted by a loyal reader. No matter how you find out, you need to take action to avoid Google’s duplicate content penalties, a loss of trust from your readership, or unfair advertising competition from your own content. So what can you do? The quickest and easiest thing you can do is send a DMCA letter (really!). Here’s how to do so in 3 easy steps:Read More »Help! Someone’s stealing my content!
One of my daughters school teachers said that childhood can be summed up in two words: teeth and shoes. I think that is because she is a teacher. If you are a parent it is 3 words. Poop, teeth and… Read More »It’s all about poop, teeth and shoes
Enjoy the Star Wars saga, rendered entirely in ASCII animation. I only wish I had this much time on my hands – perhaps I can do the Clone Wars when I retire.
I have no idea how they got so many people to do cameos, but this is my favorite video of the year. Now I’ve just got to rent a video of the Karate Kid and see who else is from… Read More »Sweep the Leg!
My favorite find this Holiday Season:
Because some of the posts I’ll be putting up are in ‘flashback mode’ (after the fact), I’ll try and recap what we have bitten off so far: Removed 20 year old blue shag carpet – done before we even moved… Read More »Projects to date
Here is the foundation of my latest folly – a 16 X 16′ bedroom addition: I’ll be the general contractor for it – subbing out the foundation and the framing/roofing but doing the rest myself. This was a nice compromise… Read More »Foundation
This is Our American Nightmare because it is certainly not the American dream we had in mind. We are renovating our house which was originally built in 1957. Hilarity ensues. Check back for the pratfalls.