Welcome back to another episode of the Reseller's
Mindset Podcast. My name is Mike, also known
as the Used Book Guy on YouTube, along with my
friend and fellow full -time reseller, Johnny
B. We help people start and grow their reselling
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this week's episode. What is up, everybody? Welcome
to another episode of Reseller's Mindset Podcast.
Mike next to Johnny, and we are diving into the
realm of... reselling beyond media. I think there's
a lot of people, you know, we have a large group
here of people and you always hear different
ideas and people are selling different types
of things, whether that's Amazon or eBay. And
I'm going to give you a lot of experience of
me just selling a lot of things outside of media
as well. I think it's more important now to not
diversify so much as like completely change your
business model. But me and Johnny were talking
before the call. We'll talk about it here just
so you guys can get our opinions on it. I do
believe there is a runway to being able to sell
definitely books on Amazon through their FBA
program just based off the way fees are structured
if you need to make thousands of dollars a month.
Now, if you're the person that's fine with making
hundreds of dollars a month, the opportunity
is always going to be there. But if you look
at the fees now for the book category on Amazon.
It is absolutely insane how much they take from
a book sale of just any you walk into any store,
you grab a hardback book, you sell that book
for 15 bucks on Amazon, you're probably making
like $3. Like, I know that sounds crazy. But
that is the actual numbers. That's the actual
math behind selling a larger hardback book or
even a standard size hardback book on Amazon.
So like, I'll throw my number out there first,
because I won't put Johnny on the spot. But I
think if the fees continue to go up year over
year like we have seen, they gave us one break
of no fees for a year. I don't think that ever
happens again. I think the runway for selling
books FBA on Amazon is probably three to five
years. I think that's correct. I mean, just for
higher dollar items, if they're taking a cut
and it's an increasing cut every year. You can't
get enough of the higher dollar books to scale.
And I know that's kind of counterintuitive to
some of the other podcasts I mentioned about
running a $50 plus eBay store or a merchant store.
I think it's a very, very hard path. I don't
think it's insurmountable, but for the average
person, and that's a lot of the booksellers average.
I think you're maybe on short time. And that's
just because they always find a way to juice
us for more money. I don't think you can accumulate
enough quantity unless you do a huge network.
Like you got a network and probably out -of -state
network too. Just gigantic network system where
you can get enough quantity to make Amazon viable
probably past that five -year threshold Mike
was mentioning. Unless there's a changing of
the guard at Amazon Control Center, I don't see
it lasting too terribly long. And again, I think
you can make a few dollars if you continue past
that point, but I don't think it's going to be
as much dollars as you see today here in 2026.
Yeah, I think, you know, the caveat to the, you
know, sell 50 plus dollar items, sell 50 plus
dollar books is, dude, I need to have like. 150
000 contacts in my phone yeah and i go nuts just
with the five resellers that have my phone number
right so like i i that's 100 feasible if you
want to live that life i just see it as i think
it's doable but extremely difficult yeah we have
plenty of opportunities to make money in other
ways right like perfect example I'm in Grocery
Outlet. So those will know what Grocery Outlet
is. It's like a discount grocery place. So they
get whatever, you know, they can't sell at retail.
It's still it's not expired. Right. So it's not
expired stuff. And I'm walking down the condiment
aisle and they had hot ones. Hot ones is like
a show where they have like celebrities on and
the hot sauces get hotter and hotter as they
go. Well, they had a set of their sauce and they're
selling it for 10 bucks. i scan it it's going
for like 60 bucks even selling for 60 bucks on
ebay i think myself like this is an easy thing
for me to buy and sell on ebay i'll probably
sell it right away um but like i've been doing
this long enough where i've lived in the area
where the fees were basically non -existent and
i could fill up a shop my car in every store
and i literally recorded a video well the video
that's being uploaded today you guys won't see
it but it's monday so my videos go up on monday
i did an over under at a goodwill how many profitable
items books cds dvds could i find at a goodwill
the over and under was seven and i lost i found
four items in the whole damn goodwill right so
like in all three categories all three categories
It has changed so much. You can still make money
reselling. And I've realized this because for
those who don't know, I've been focusing more
on the influencer program. Right. Kind of like
it's almost it gets about the same amount of
time I give FBA now. And I've seen the results
with that. I was telling Johnny because I was
crying because I had to pack three eBay orders.
Right. And he's like, suck it up, dude. Like
your ASP is like forty five dollars. I'm like,
whatever. Yeah, you're right. And I'm just throwing
it in a bubble mailer. But it's kind of opened
my eyes to. the opportunities that exist outside
of media right and i think we if you just want
to sell books you have to accept the fate that
the category is going down right like if you're
going to be the person that's like i'm only ever
going to sell this item well as the fees go up
as the market shifts you're stuck but i think
people need to start Branching out, you know,
I I used to scan everything and there's people
in the group that scan everything. If it's brand
new, they'll scan on the Amazon app and sell
it if they can. Right. Tommy Boy's been doing
this for years. He sold all those Sony dream
machines that everybody sees in every thrift
store for the longest time. So it's like you
have to start thinking outside the box. If you're
going to live and die with media, you're eventually
going to die. Right. That's just the whole idea
of it, because. The way the fees are structured.
Goodwill used to be full carts for me. I shit
you not. We can probably go back and look at
my early videos. I grabbed the Goodwill, the
blue cart once I go in because I know that cart's
basically getting filled up. It's changing. This
podcast isn't meant to tell people not to sell
books. I just think we have to be aware and prepare
for the inevitable downfall. And listen. you
guys that want to do fbm and do ebay more power
to you that is not the life i want to lead and
i've seen other business models succeed right
i i know there's other options out there i always
just focused on media and i'm going to continue
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the link in the description below. Books. there
is a there is a runway on books for selling on
amazon via fba if the fees continue to go up
and it's going to be sooner than later like and
that's just the reality of it it's crazy to me
that it's changed so much in just a couple years
but that's anything right no matter if me and
johnny had a poop pooper scooper business right
like that business is going to change every business
model is going to change it's you just got to
be willing to figure out what How much time you
want to spend? How much money you need to make?
What are you going to do to get there, right?
Like I don't want to work a lot and I need to
make not a lot of money because I have low overhead
costs, right? Now, if you're somebody that's
in California, you need to probably make at least
10 grand a month just to cover your rent and
your lights. It's weird, man. It's weird to talk
about it because it's kind of all I've ever known
and like all I've ever talked about. Oh, the
used book guy sells books on Amazon. And like
I'm telling you right now that the runway for
books on Amazon is... Over the last two years,
you've kind of been shifting more toward the
disc media side over books. Yeah, and I've also
realized with the tools, like with GoToList or
where you can see what all your shit inventory
is, all of my shit inventory is books. It makes
me never want to scan another book, but I do
have a few of those good relationships like Johnny
was talking about where I can go and still find
quality books. But if you just said, hey, Mike,
you can't sell nothing but books on Amazon, right,
for the rest of your time. I mean, I probably
could scrape by maybe like three or four thousand
dollars in sales a month if I really went hard
and like was in it for like. 50, 60 hours a week
with the sources in my area, right? And being
a solo operator with no staff, no warehouse life.
I could probably do between like five and 8K
a month, I think solely off books, but that would
be 40 hours a week. And that would be scanning
tens and tens of thousands of books in my area.
And personally, that is not what I want to do.
Right. I mean, and just to put people back in
focus, we're solely talking about Amazon FBA
and we're talking. from a solo operator perspective
if you want to scale yes you can make more money
scaling if you want i mean you need automation
dude you need you need the employees you need
the uh the conveyor belt i mean those those guys
have the advantages of being able to process
way more than we can and that's the big that's
the big thing if we if our percentage of accepts
goes down items we're finding that's profitable
we can skew that number based on how many items
we scan, right? So if our accept goes down by
2%, right? We're finding 2 % less books, but
we're scanning an extra 50 % books. You're going
to wind up growing your inventory because you're
scanning more. So your inventory is still growing.
Right. And if you want to stay in books and you're
a solo operator, you're going to have to find
services and other outlets, I believe. to to
stay afloat and grow like you need people that
buy this type of book and maybe not necessarily
a buyback program maybe an ebay guy like hey
i want all your romance novels i'll pay you a
dollar each go find that person that's a great
connect hold on to them for as long as you can
and similar things like that you got to network
yourself that way as well because what can't
go to amazon what do you do what's left of it
So we always talk about trying to monetize the
duds, but it needs to be effective and not a
waste of time. So you need to find the right
people. You don't need to try. You can try to
monetize yourself. We've got a couple of people
in the group who are doing the brick and mortar
route or doing the what do you call it? It's
a consignment antique booth mall kind of set
up that kind of thing. There are ways you just
got to figure it out. You got to figure out how
to make it work, make it time efficient, where
it takes very little of your time out. And that's
the hard part. A lot of people put a lot of time
in, get very little out when they try to branch
out. Or maybe you offer a service. If you can
figure it out, there's a lot of good money in
book repair, honest to God. But that is a craft,
and you've got to learn that craft. It's like
a welder. You can't just cane a guy a blowtorch
and, oh, he's a welder. That's not how that works.
The weld's got to be right. Same for book repair.
It's like there's so many layers now to be successful.
It used to just be go to the thrift store and
send it in right now. It's like, well, you better
be able to make some money off all the duds you're
getting. Right. You better like I have an antique
booth, not for books or media or anything for
like my influencer stuff. And I go on Mondays.
So after we record these podcasts, I'll go there.
I'll straighten it up, make sure everything looks
nice and neat. That's the extent of it. And there
are people in the group that do have success
doing that, but that's another layer, right?
All of a sudden you got another thing you got
to add in that you got to worry about, right?
Take out time, no matter what, if everything
you add, well, it's going to take a chunk of
time. It's just a matter of how much. Yeah. And
that's the thing, right? Like how entrenched
do you want to be with what you have going on?
Right? Like, I don't think there's wrong with,
I think certain people just love working all
the time. I don't think there's anything wrong
with that. I probably throw myself in that camp,
but it doesn't mean I don't diversify. Yeah.
And it's like you have to value your time. You
can't just spin your wheels just to spin your
wheels. I think a lot of those people are long
gone. It's hard to balance it when you've been
around so long. New resellers are excited. Tell
you right now. New resellers are super excited.
They're so cute. They're adorable. Yeah, like
these people I have one -on -ones with that are
new, that are getting results right away. They're
super excited. And then people that have been
doing reselling since 2025, the beginning of
the year, are down in the dumps, man, because
they do see the changes Amazon has made specifically.
Even eBay now with their promoted listings, you're
basically paying promoted all the time. You've
got to promote. Everything is changing. And I
think you have to be willing to make some changes.
If you're going to stay around and keep your
time in your pocket and continue to make the
money you need to make, that's why I always tell
everybody, spend, be super smart with your money,
pay off all your debts, owe nothing to anybody,
have a pile of cash, and it will change how you
look at different things. You won't feel like
you always have to be out there in the weeds,
always doing something in the business, right?
Like you can still make good money without being
in the business 80 hours a week. Right. And if
you want to be in an 80 hours a week, make it
a productive, efficient, very profitable 80 hours
a week. And we got a lot of part -timers in the
group. I think they will encounter the most difficulty
because they're limited on their time. They're
part -time. They got a day job somewhere or other
commitments somewhere. And for those people,
I would just say switch categories now. um just
get used to it find out whatever it is um if
you want to dabble in books like as a hobbyist
versus part -time sure but i think if you're
relying on the part -time effort income i would
i would just start looking at different things
now yeah i think uh i think what you could do
what you could approach it to is like keep like
your five best sources right because let's face
it most of the good stuff we get comes from only
a few of our sources right everything else is
just kind of filler like we have probably our
five to ten best sources so if we're part -time
cut out all these other crappy stores you're
never going to the goodwill i only went there
for the video i knew i wasn't going to find nothing
right like i knew i was already over there yeah
like i was already over there I haven't been
there in a while. I always like going in and
seeing how much of a mess it is and hear all
the eBay dingers going around. But like, focus
on your five, 10 best sources and figure out
what excites you and what category is hot, right?
Like, you know, I have, I sell a lot of my influencer
stuff on eBay and I have probably, let's see
here. I'm going to pull it up just so we get
actual facts. Well, on that. One of my questions
I was going to ask you, do you bother with like
20 and under stuff? Okay, there you go. No, dude.
On the last 90 days, I've sold $2 ,887. Nice.
62 orders. I only have 16 items active. I take
no photos. It's all just stock photos. Oh, you're
using stock? Okay. So it would be hard to replicate
that in a book business. with that type of sell
through in 90 days with only those little listings,
right? So maybe I am jaded because I do see the
potential of other, you know, outlets and even
hell, even other business ideas and opportunities
that exist. But, you know, Johnny's right. Like,
if you're going to live and die on the hill with
books, then, you know, you better figure out
a way that you better start building your Rolodex.
You better have multiple libraries. You better
have multiple clean out companies. You better
become the clean out person. Nothing wrong with
that. Just understand the responsibility and
the headaches that come along with it, right?
Like we have people in the group that are doing,
you know, basically six figures on Amazon a month
with media. But they are huge operations, right?
Huge consignment operation, huge warehouse operation,
gay lords every single week coming in, going
out every single day. You have employees, you
have other layers to it. I think people like
just think, oh, yeah, I'm just going to get a
warehouse. I'm like, it's just me in the warehouse,
dude. And there's nobody else. It's just me and
the gay lords. And I'm like, I didn't really
think this out. Like there's so many layers to
this business now to be successful with books.
Right. And the reality here is, and Mike's going
to know this more than me, I think there's maybe
one operator in our group that's close to a million
in media. Or is there more? Do we have a million
plus guy media seller? I don't think we do. We
will have two this year. Yeah, I think there's
one I know of and there's another one apparently
who's in the shadows working his ass off. Good
for them. And so if you think you can make millions
of dollars just staying in media, and just fba
possible but we have a lot of people in the group
and there's two and i don't think they're there
yet they're almost not they have lots of employees
and lots of overhead both of them right so they're
running a huge operation they're huge media empire
and it's a lot of i guarantee you both of them
have done a lot of networking in order to accomplish
that got the staff got the space that they needed
to run their operations. Unless you're prepared
to do that, I'm going to pop your balloon right
now. You as a solo person, I'm going to say you're
not going to be able to do that. Will there be
an outlier to prove me wrong? Sure. Good for
that person. But that's like winning the lottery.
Yeah, it's tough too because when you have this
conversation, especially if it's something like
me where you kind of started doing that from
the beginning and it's all you've kind of really
known. You know, I just looked on YouTube five
years of creating content on YouTube, like all
solely around selling books and shit on Amazon.
Right. Like even me as the person who's been
entrenched in it for that many years has to face,
you know, the facts, the writings on the wall.
Right. Now, the the option you have. Right. If
we kind of look outside of selling something
different, it's changing the business model.
Maybe you start buying directly from book brands
so you can actually sell the books new on Amazon,
right, and eBay. Maybe, like, there's so many
different things past that haven't even been
explored yet because it's always been so easy
to get away with just scanning books and sending
them to Amazon. I got my book sales this week,
the first ones of the year. And I have the same
guys that go. At least last year, they were at
every single one. So I'm going to be curious
to see if these guys are still there because
they don't scan the DVDs or CDs. They only rely
on the books. And they weren't finding much in
2025 before this whole thing changed on Amazon.
So I'm curious to see. It's been probably six
months since my last sale. If these guys are
still going to be driving two to three hours
to go to every single one of these sales because
gas is up. And books are down, dude. It's like
the trade -off is not balanced anymore. You used
to be able to, hey, it's fine if we're going
to drive four hours to go to a book sale because
we're going to find 300 books and we're going
to make a couple thousand dollars. Well, that's
not the reality of it anymore. Now you drive
four hours. Gas is four hours a gallon. You find
50 books. That's not worth it. You're making
like three bucks an hour when it's all said and
done. Right. And there's also... I think we've
mentioned it a couple times. I'll mention it
again. There's those remainder companies. You
can get a more specialized deal than what they're
selling on the website. That's pretty much like
new, ready to go, if you can acquire them. I
mean, they're considered used, so probably like
new. Will people buy them and flip them for new?
Sure. But even on eBay, that's good money. and
I've done it, if you find a book about witchcraft
and stuff, that's always going to sell. I don't
care what decade I buy it from, it's always going
to sell. But getting some likening of that, a
little bit for Amazon, a little bit for eBay,
and then figuring out how to scale that with
multiple hundreds or thousands, assuming it has
a fantastic sell -through rate, unlike, what
was that one post floating around? The Great
Gatsby with thousands of books. Who wants to
buy it, right? Brand new. Nobody wanted to pick
that thing up because the sell -through rate
was terrible. Little things like that. You just
got to work. You got to work harder here and
less on the physical moving around in the books.
You got to put your thinking cap on and figure
out all these avenues, what you could do. I mean,
I mentioned book repair. That's a lot of labor.
That's a lot of time. And it better be right
or you're going to go out of business. And maybe
you're offering some service. Like I think Mike
mentioned the clean out guy. Maybe you charge
for that. So you're paid right away. Instead
of doing it for free. I think you'll have more
success if you do it for free. But if you want
to make a little scratch and charge for your
time, hey, there you go. And labor too. You got
classifieds on Facebook and TaskRabbit is a dedicated
app to that. If you need labor... pretty much
like Uber when you need it. You can post there,
they'll come out, do all the work. You don't
have employees all the time, which also don't
have the reliability because some of those guys
may fluff off. But if you just need some luck
heads to move things from point A to point B
or maybe drive the truck around, that's a pretty
easy solution in my opinion. Yeah, I think the
people that do their own fulfillment, the eBay
sellers, the FBM sellers, their runway will be
longer, but that doesn't necessarily... mean
they're going to be profitable i mean there's
lots of people out there that sell junk books
on ebay and amazon for under ten dollars which
is a guaranteed waste of time no one's going
to tell me any different you literally can go
in the corner with a cup and make more than these
people that are spending all day packing ebay
and amazon orders that are under ten dollars
um but that's besides the point i think those
people will stay around i think there's always
going to be people i just feel like if you're
just going to solely rely on selling media we
have to realize that at some point this might
not be feasible to do on amazon and even ebay
right like i mean the difference somebody asked
me this like on a one -on -one what if i you
know what if i comp some of these items on ebay
and like and sold like i know i'll tell you exactly
what it was he was buying x library So he didn't
want to sell them on Amazon because some of the
CDs and DVD covers are like reprinted. Right.
And you don't want to get a counterfeit claim
on Amazon. Sure. So he says, hey, what do you
think about me selling these on eBay instead?
And I said, all right, let's go down this rabbit
hole. Go grab one or grab anything you have and
scan it. And you can have a little button set
up on your phone. So it goes right to eBay solds.
Well, the big problem with that is that DVD,
book, CD that you could get $20 for on Amazon
is most likely going for $7 on eBay. And that's
exactly what we realized. It's not the same game,
right? I think a lot of us that are conditioned
to sell books on Amazon. Selling on eBay is not
the same universe in the realm of media. It's
a completely different beast. There's no comparisons
between the two platforms on how much you can
get for those items. It's always going to be
way lower on eBay. Now, the caveat to that is
if you have something that's collectible or signed,
of course, you're always going to win on eBay.
But yet again, we wind back up with what Johnny
said at the beginning. Is it even possible to
find that in quantity? And if so, how much of
a pain in the ass and headaches are you going
to add to your life to run that business? And
I challenge everybody to have the most headache
free business, focus on what's going to make
you the most amount of money with the least amount
of effort that isn't going to drive you nuts.
And for me, you know, like if the day comes and
books aren't feasible, I just won't scan them,
right? Or I'll just solely work with the libraries
I work with and have one or two of my really
good sources that I'll scan for books. It will
be disc media. But by then, who the hell knows
what I'm going to be doing, right? Like I've
been building an influencer program. I'm still
thrifting every week. But I mean, I'd be dumb
to say that there's not a point where I'm making
more money doing the influencer program than
I am Amazon. I mean, I'm almost there because
this, you know, side business has ramped up so
quickly for me. And I didn't think I was going
to be there that quick. But, you know, that's
a reality. So is there a point where? in 2026
maybe i don't scan the books anymore besides
unless i get them from my library or it's like
my top five best sources and maybe i solely go
in scan the disc media get in and out of there
spend less time in the stores that allows me
to focus more time on my actual influencer business
but i'm still scanning media and sending in the
good stuff and still making you know five grand
a month off amazon 100%. That version of me exists
in 2026, and it wouldn't surprise me a single
bit if I got there sooner than later. Sure. And
for those that want to stay entrenched, I mean,
I think you got to make a tough call. You either
go the mega spider web networking route, or you
got to get over yourself and, okay, I'm going
to need employees and I'm going to need a space
in order to do this. and stay in this um if you're
if you're gonna commit to it well make the commitment
and that's what that's gonna be the reality or
else you're gonna you're gonna be struggling
here in five years if you're expecting the same
paycheck if you're putting in the same amount
of hours and sourcing the same amount of same
type of material come 2030. yeah dude you're
right you said it you hit it right i mean one
of the guys we were talking about that's uh probably
going to do a million he did exactly that right
so he went from working out of his garage to
having a warehouse right so like that's a huge
change you needed he already had the employees
at home but like now you have the overhead of
the warehouse right you have all this added responsibility
you now need to process more but like i do i
do agree i think the people that survive in the
book category are going to be the mega sellers
the little guys can still make hundreds maybe
a couple grand a month But it's going to be crazy
to see how this plays out. You're going to have
to earn those dollars. It's not going to be easy
dollars. Yeah, it's not going to be easy dollars.
It's going to be relationship dollars and bulk
dollars, I truly believe. Now, some people have
higher ASPs. They have these little pockets of
great sources. I know that seems good today,
but I'm here to tell you, just like my Goodwill
stories, sources change. Sources come, sources
go. Dude, they're actually putting... new goodwills
and savers around me so i didn't have no savers
in my area savers is coming to the area they're
going in all the uh old right aids so right aids
went bankrupt they closed all the right aids
around me yeah so the goodwills are going in
there the savers are going in there so i'm i'm
actually getting more sources that are becoming
available to me but the problem is These sources
are trash, dude. I'm 0 % excited. Savers is coming.
And I'm like, yeah, wow, $8 books. I can't wait
to go in there. I got a crazy idea for someone.
And I hope someone takes me up on it. I hope
they make millions and millions of dollars. Instead
of going to the Goodwill, why don't you start
your own Mike's Thrift Store kind of deal? You
supply all the resellers. You're the supply person
now. I mean. They're all trying to struggle to
make a dollar, but you're guaranteed to make
a dollar. These thrift stores are making money,
dude. They wouldn't be putting all these new
stores around. I mean, it's crazy to me how much
of these new Goodwills. Well, and not even that.
The Goodwills also are remodeling. They've all
been remodeling around me as well. They are making
hand over fist dollars. You can't remodel without
dollars. They're making money. Why can't, you
know, like Johnny said, you know, get a little
shop somewhere and sell your wares for next to
nothing. I think we all just should have a plan
for, you know. kind of getting outside of it.
And I challenge everybody next time you're out
at a store, wherever it may be, go to the clearance
aisle and just scan a few things that aren't
related to the category you're selling in today.
Even if you're a clothing seller, scan a few
things, right? Scan the limited edition Dorito
bags that are sitting on the shelf, right? Like
you would, you probably be surprised at some
of the prices people are willing to pay for things
outside of the category. We got people in the
group. uh that are big selling light bulbs right
we got tommy boy who does all the used electronics
uh board games puzzles right like these are out
they started with media as their foundation and
you keep it as your foundation until you graduate
onto something else another category and i just
want you to when you do make that jump do something
that's going to have a high sell through and
you're going to be happier and you're not going
to have to spend as much time because i do firmly
believe that Selling books on Amazon via Amazon
FBA does have a lifespan here. And we're probably
well into the back half of that. Probably the
back quarter or last 10 % of that lifespan. Because
if fees go up three more times, you have to find
books consistently that sell for over $20. At
least in my area, dude. There, I can count them
on one hand. There is not many of those books
just out in the world. I mean, books also, when
people publish books on Amazon, there's more
of those than ever, right? Like your typical
new book, especially if it's paperback, is going
to be between like $13 and $17 now, right? So
like, how can we sell used books for more than
what they're actually selling for? They're phasing
out all mass markets. They're going away after
this year. No more ever going to be made except
for like a custom run that somebody does like
for self -publishing. They're going away. So
that tells us, at least going forward, new books,
they're in trade paperback, which is larger and
heavier than the mass markets. So since Amazon's
weight based on fees, that's just naturally going
to go up. I mean, there's still going to be the
older ones floating around for a period of time.
But after a while, nope, no more. Yeah, you're
right. All right, we're going to wrap this episode
up here. You know, we just wanted to kind of
talk about our honest opinion on where we think
the book category is headed and life outside
of selling just media and kind of our opinions
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