Re Tax, which you don’t mention, according the Revenue Canada, if you are selling books anywhere in Canada, you need to charge the GST portion of the tax, whether the province in question uses HST or PST & GST, the PST portion is rebatable, so you can simply rebate it at point of sale. If you are selling outside of Canada, then you don’t need to apply taxes.

As for the question of shipping, depending on your volume of sales, you might look into a mail service (like Mail-O-Matic here in the Vancouver area). I’m not sure what kind of volume you need to have to make this workable, but companies like this usually courier their US packages across the border and mail them from the USA. This is usually far cheaper than mailing from Canada. Also, the US has a “media mail” rate that can save book sellers a lot of money, however, you need to allow 2 to 8 days for delivery: USA.https://www.usps.com/ship/media-mail.htm

I asked him this:

“Why are you selling this book for nearly $1000.00 when it is a $20.00 book at best?”

His response:

“Thank you for your interest in our listings. The item details on the Amazon page should be accurate. We do not have additional information available at this time. Most orders ship at the post office media rate. If you receive an item from us and are unhappy with it for any reason please let us know. We are always happy to assist with a return if necessary.”

here is a direct link to their amazon store and the book i mentioned above:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0871162741/ref=sc_pgp__m_A1PJBQ2BT0EDQX_9?ie=UTF8&m=A1PJBQ2BT0EDQX&n=&s=&v=glance

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