Books are no doubt an ideal online product:

• big selection not obtainable in most offline bookstores,
• no need to touch to make buying decision,
• easy to ship

As you remember Amazon was initially online bookseller only and this product category is still plays the significant part in the sales structure of the top e-commerce store.

So, ideal product for online sales, great demand… and tough competition. How can you compete with all those online booksellers (Amazon, Barnes & Nobles, etc)? The only way is to choose a narrow niche and focus on it.

Is it possible to do with dropshipping books? Out today’s case study is likely to show you how to do that.

I also recommend you to browse our other case studies – you know by this time I guess we have quite a long list of profitable dropship businesses – small and large scale – that sell a wide range of products

Do not miss also their marketing techniques – how do their owners efficiently promote their products?

Need products dropshipped from true wholesalers? Then explore this chart. It is a good starting point, though the ideal situation is to be the exclusive online dropshipper of some wholesaler…

And now read how to profitably dropship textbooks

$15000 NET PROFIT + NO MAINTENANCE (Automated)

• URL: www.wholesalecollegetextbooks.com
• Established: Fri Jun 30 2006
• Uniques/Month: 5,800
• Page views/month: 18,400
• Monthly Revenue: $10,000
• Google Pagerank: 2
• BIN: $20 000

Description:

WholesaleCollegeTextbooks is a premier ecommerce site/ affiliate site for college textbooks.
Here’re some info of the site:

Income:

I monetize the website through 2 means, affiliate income through Amazon, and sales income (using Google Checkout) by dropshipping.

We made $100K in gross sales from the site by dropshipping in 2007. At which around $8K is net profit. (the difference is product cost and monthly cost for virtual assistant which handles the order)

I make an avg. of $600 net profit per month through Amazon - this requires NO WORK AT ALL. People go on our site, search for books, if we do not have that book, we show results from Amazon, and they will be directed to Amazon through our affiliate link and we make income when they purchase off them.

Traffic Statistics (From Statscounter):

46242 Unique visits in 2007; 39996 Unique visits in 2008 (up till July)

148656 Page views in 2007; 128902 Page views in 2008 (up till July)

ALL traffic comes from organic search engine listings.

Marketing:

PR: 2

Strong SERP on Google, MSN, and Yahoo

No. 3 on Google at keyword “College Textbooks”, “international edition textbooks” and many other keywords

Monthly fix cost: $0

NO LINKS EVER BOUGHT FOR THE DOMAIN OR SITE

No adwords or banner ad are used to promote

Maintenance:

Minimal maintenance is required for this site - we don’t do anymore marketing. And Amazon affiliate income is automatic. The only required work is fulfilling the dropship orders - which is now taken care by our virtual assistance, at which we’ll give you the contact upon sales.

Traffic Details: