Be a book broker

TheBookPond are currently looking for businesses to act as brokers for used textbooks.

The seller would bring their books in, leave their details, and set a sale price. The broker would list their books with theBookPond.com and handle the sale. The broker would send the money onto the seller, minus a pre-agreed commission and/or an admin fee.

Textbooks can have a high value and many students are reluctant to part with them at the low price that traditional book-dealers have offered for them. The result is that too many textbooks are left un-loved and gathering dust, long after they should be. Which is a shame because there are other students desperate to save money on their own textbook purchases. There is a temporal and spatial mis-match between the lives of final-year students who are moving out of the area, and those of new students moving in. Local book brokers would plug that gap.

A theBookPond broker would get a free listing on our site, as well as being promoted to our members through the use of our blog, Facebook page, Twitter feed and our e-newsletter. We will provide leaflets and posters for your premises, and are here to answer any questions by email. In return, the book broker would set their own terms and commission levels, and are free to cease being a theBookPond broker at any time.

The benefits of being a broker are obviously the extra income accrued by the commission, as well as extra foot-fall to your premises, and a listing (and backlink to your site) on our main site.

Ideally, the business would already be trading in a publicly-accessible premises in or close to the university area, and operating in a related business, such as second-hand goods, stationery, print-and-copy, or maybe in coffee and buns.

So if you fancy being a small but vital part of a growing student service, please get in touch with Joanne on joanne@thebookpond.com, or through our Facebook page.