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Transportable: Online Or Shop-based Bookshop In North-east For Sale

North-east, Victoria, Australia
Asking Price:
$49,500 (AUD) Furniture / Fixtures and Inventory / Stock included
Sales Revenue:
Under $100K (AUD)
Cash Flow:
$50K - $100K (AUD)

All you need to set up your own shop is included: the books, shelving, point-of-sale equipment, and furniture.

It is all easily transportable, ready for you to pick up and sell wherever you like: online and/or to a street-based shop.

Our bookshop (selling second-hand books) has been operating since 2016 as a bricks-and-mortar shop, then only online since Covid. Personal commitments have arisen that require all our attention and time and so we offer our business for sale to other book-lovers.

We have over 20,000 second-hand books in good to excellent condition. About 75% are on a database (available as an Excel spreadsheet) and all range from contemporary fiction to valuable old/collectable titles.

Books are priced in pencil, and all have been cleaned. Approximate total retail sales value (of the 75% on the database) = $252,000. Add those that are not on the database and the combined financial return to you when you sell them will be much more.

Our shelving is the best quality - all steel and adjustable. The shelving includes hand-made silky-oak timber bay ends, giving your store fit-out a professional and quality look.

All your point-of-sale needs are provided including over 35 handmade silky-oak timber upright book displays for your shop windows and display tables, cash register, signage and equipment, spare stock, and more.

We have a vibrant Shopify website (currently offline), set up to sell about 25% of the databased books. This website, with over 3,500 titles and images is included in the sale price and can be transferred.

Please note: The photos show the business when set up in-store. The bookshop is now packed up, ready for pick-up to your desired location.

Property Information

Location:

In storage, ready for transportation to your home/ shop.

Business Operation

Expansion Potential:

Take advantage of the growth potential with one or more of the following:

a) Open your own bricks and mortar store, wherever you like. Combine this with online selling to capture the world-wide customer market. One will help to promote the other and your sales will be boosted.
b) Use social media (we have not used it at all).
c) Host literary events such as book signings/ launches, book readings, book club events.
d) Partner with other businesses/ industries, e.g. bulk sell specialty cooking books to a provender shop, consign gardening books to the nursery or children's books to a toy shop/ children's clothing store - the possibilities are endless!

Reasons for selling:

We are moving on to pursue other interests.

Trading hours:

*As a street-based shop, we were open for an average of 27 hours per week (a lifestyle choice). *When you are selling online, your books are on sale 24/7 but you can set your own times to process the orders.

Years established:
6.5

Other Information

Support & training:

Initial training for the database is available and will be time-limited.

Furniture / Fixtures value:
$25,000 (AUD) - included in the asking price
Inventory / Stock value:
$41,000 (AUD) - included in the asking price
Business closed / Asset sale:
Yes
Home based:
This business can be run from home.
Relocatable:
This business can be relocated.