With the spring term over and the summer term under way, textbook sellers are making plans to list and sell on Amazon Marketplace for the upcoming fall term. To help you decide which used and new textbooks to include for sale on the Amazon Marketplace, we are providing the following list of bestselling textbook titles.

These textbooks were the Top 100 textbooks sold by Amazon Marketplace sellers during the peak weeks of the Spring 2011 textbook season. Please remember that due to seasonality, books that are big sellers for the spring term (January 2011) may not be indicative of the books that will sell in the fall term (September 2011). Also, historical sales on Amazon Marketplace may not be indicative of future sales, as used textbooks have a limited lifespan.

When listing textbooks, it is important to note the publication date and edition. For the best buying experience, sellers should be careful to match the ISBN of the textbook they're listing to the exact detail page on Amazon.com to ensure that the title and edition are correct. Sellers should also note differences in cover art when checking for matches.

For example, one of the top selling textbooks on this spring's list, Mankiw's Principles of Microeconomics is the 5th Edition published September 24, 2008, ISBN 978-0324589986. The 6th Edition of this textbook, ISBN 978-0538453042, was published on February 7, 2011. While older editions of this textbook have value and can be sold on Amazon Marketplace, demand for the most recent edition will likely increase. (You may notice that several of the top-selling textbooks on the Spring 2011 list have upgrade editions.)

For additional information on each title, click on the image to see the product detail page in the Amazon catalog.

The table below shows the top 10 bestselling textbook titles for Spring 2011.

Click on the following link to download a full table:

Top 100 Textbook ASINs - Spring 2011

For comparison to the earlier lists, click on the links below:
Top 100 Textbook ASINs - Fall 2010
Top 100 Textbook ASINs - Spring 2010

We hope that providing information about top-selling textbook titles will help sellers be more successful in the upcoming Fall 2011 and Spring 2012 textbook seasons. If you have feedback about this effort, feel free to write to textbook-selling@amazon.com.

Thank you for selling on Amazon.com.

Throughout this winter/spring textbook season (December  2010 through the first week of February 2011), we provided sellers with best practices and resources for selling textbooks on Amazon. Our blog posts, tips in your Seller Account home page, and informative e-mails were designed to address the specific needs of our textbook sellers.

Now we want to know what communications were helpful and what could be improved upon. Please take a few minutes to complete our short Amazon Winter/Spring Textbook Selling Survey 2011. Your feedback helps us serve you better in the future. Thank you for your time.

Buyer feedback is important to both sellers and buyers. Feedback is a metric by which Amazon measures seller performance, and buyers use seller feedback when making purchasing decisions. To get a head start on good feedback, read our Help page on How to get a great feedback score.

Buyers can leave a seller feedback for up to 90 days after the transaction. Once a buyer has left feedback, it cannot be edited, but the buyer can remove it for up to 60 days. Learn more in our Buyer Help page on feedback.

We encourage you to contact buyers about leaving and removing feedback. Remember, though, that ultimately it's the buyer's decision whether or not to give you feedback and what kind to give. Be courteous and professional. Inappropriate contact is a violation of our Selling Policies.

You use the Feedback Manager in your account to contact buyers. You can also use this tool to leave a response on your own Seller Profile to feedback buyers have left. Learn how in our page on Using the Feedback Manager and Feedback FAQ.

Good feedback rewards sellers who list products correctly, communicate well with buyers, and ship orders promptly. Customers are more likely to purchase products from sellers with higher feedback ratings. In the long run, it pays to be a flexible, fair, and professional seller!

Be prepared for increased returns during textbook season. Students sometimes need to return books due to class cancellations. All sellers must accept returns, even if the order is fulfilled correctly.

Here are some situations when you may need to refund, accept returns or cancel orders:

• You can't fulfill an order.
• The customer doesn't receive your order.
• The customer returns an item.
• The customer files a credit card chargeback or an A-to-z Guarantee Claim.
• The customer requests you cancel an order.
• The buyer is unable to receive the order at the address provided.

Whether you need to issue a full or partial refund, you can do so using the Manage Orders tool in your seller account.

Still have questions? Read our Fulfillment, Returns and Refunds FAQ.

We all know that textbooks are big sellers on Amazon! But did you also know that certain editions of your textbook might be prohibited for sale on our site?

Prohibited Textbook Items:

• Promotional Instructor's Editions
• Teacher's Editions and Annotated Instructor's Editions
• Solutions Manuals
• International/Foreign Edition Textbooks

Learn more.