Pictures sell books
The single most effective thing you can do to increase your sales on Biblio is free.
It's free, and it doesn't have to be difficult. If you don't have pictures of your books already, start slowly with a few books at a time. Select the most interesting books in your inventory and take digital pictures of those books. If you already have pictures of all of your books, make sure that Biblio has those images online.
Biblio offers sellers a number of easy options for adding images
Aspect ratio is the width of the image divided by the height of the image: x/y
- Upload all of your images to Biblio in bulk by ftp.
- Send us an image URL field in your inventory upload files.
- Add images one at a time directly to your books on Biblio.
- Email your pictures directly from your camera phone!
- Has an aspect ratio between 3 and .33
- Is at least 80 pixels wide
Biblio's systems will automatically make copies of your images in several sizes to display in various places on the site. A full sized, zoom-able copy of your book image will be stored as long as the image you have uploaded to us is at least 600 pixels wide.
What images do for you
Customers want to see a book before they buy it. The more expensive the book, the more true that statement is. Adding images helps your customers' confidence level in buying your book online. Additionally, photos add options for promoting your books on Biblio.
- Once you add photos, any of your books priced at least USD $100 become automatically eligible for the Rare Book Room, which helps get your best books in front of discerning book collectors.
- Any book priced at least USD $50 with photos can be put in Biblio's exclusive Make-an-Offer list, giving you the chance to negotiate prices directly with your customers.
- Biblio's Marketing Team hand selects books from books on the site that have images for special promotion to Biblio's targeted book buyer and collector email list.
If you want to crop, resize, or make any other adjustments to your images, free photo editing software is readily available for both Mac and PC, but in most cases, you don't need to change anything. Just take the picture with a digital camera or phone and upload it to Biblio using one of the options mentioned above.
Click here to find out which of your books still need photos.