Field guides
for data-literate scouts · no hype, no invented numbers
Short guides on the mechanics behind the verdicts. Everything here follows the same contract as the rest of the site: no invented statistics, no earnings promises — just how the market works and how to read it faster.
- Penny Race 101
What a penny race is, how fees eat a one-cent book, how to spot a crowded offer ladder from the shelf, and when the book is still worth buying. - Amazon gating, from the scout's side of the shelf
What Amazon gating means for book scouts: why gates vary by account, how to avoid dead inventory at FBA check-in, and why a gated book still pays. - Library sale scouting: the field plan
How to work a Friends of the Library sale: preview night, table priority, scanner-ban etiquette, and honest bag-day math for data-literate book scouts. - FBA vs MF for used books
FBA and Merchant Fulfilled take different bites out of a used book. How the fees differ, where weight matters, and which books belong on which channel. - Scanning in dead zones
Basements, steel barns, rural estate sales — no bars. What a dead zone costs a book scout, and how an offline scan queue keeps you working through it.
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