If you are interesting in bookselling and book distribution, online offers many excellent opportunities. Here are several ways of becoming an online bookseller:

Website/Creative a webpage--If you are a theme-oriented webmaster, say you have an astronomy, films, or advertising website, then you can decide to sell books on these subjects. Join Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble as an associate, then include the links to the books that you are selling. Research the books that are on your theme, then include a list of them, include images of the books, along with descriptions. When the books are ordered via your link you recieve a percentage of sales. You can also write and market your own books on this same website. Of course you can have a general bookselling website and not just a theme-based.

Your Own Bookstore--You can set up your own bookstore using the turnkey bookstore companies, such as vstore.ca (for example, The Book Store, http://thebookstore.vstoremarket.com/index.htm) and cafepress.com. These turnkey companies can be easily researched using your search engine. Some sell e-books, others a combination of e-books and printed books. Some turnkey companies promote the books themselves, others you must purchase the books through book wholesellers.

Affiliate Programs--There are a number of affiliate in which you can sell books. These include Music Books Plus and Clickbank also has many books for sale, both ebooks and printed books.

And you can make use of course of all of the above, as webmasters often manage several or more websites. For instance, you might have a bookselling website, devoted to specific types of books, then your own turnkey bookstore, and join bookselling affiliate programs. These can also be hyperlinked together and/or advertised independently.

Article Writing--This is an excellent way of promoting your books online. You can write articles on the subjects, then point to your website in the signature line. If you are the author of the books you are promoting through article writing, then you can excerpt the book, then include in the signature line where the book is available for selling.

For promoting your bookstore or bookselling/distribution website there are many other online promotions methods, including search engines, link exchanges, classified ads, postcards, electronic & print, etc.

A recommended online website is Free Advertising Forum, http://www.freeadvertisingforum.com. There is also Free Advertising Exchange, http://www.freeadvertisingexchange.com

Susan James is a freelance writer interested in online business, online advertising and writing web content.