For used & second-hand bookshops

Your shop is full.
Let the world know.

The only digital storefront built for used bookshops. Grade conditions, list by ISBN, accept UPI. Your readers are already looking — they just can't find you.

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◆ 847 shops online◆ 2.1M books listed◆ ₹0 to start
SECOND CHAPTER BOOKS
BANDRA · MUMBAI · EST. 2009
847 books● OPEN
Indian Fiction · Shelf 3
The God of Small Things
Midnight's Children
A Fine Balance
The White Tiger
The Namesake
Shantaram
The Inheritance of Loss
Interpreter of Maladies
Sacred Games
An Equal Music
The Space Between Us
Delhi: A Novel
Search 847 books by title, author, or ISBN...FILTER ▾
Roy
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
FINE
₹180978-0-00-654887-8
Rushdie
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
GOOD
₹220978-0-09-958937-9
Mistry
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
SOLD
—978-0-06-093540-0
Adiga
The White Tiger
Aravind Adiga
FAIR
₹140978-1-84655-182-9
UPI · CARDS · CASH ON DELIVERY
BOOKSELLER
The problem

A shop full of treasures.
Invisible to everyone outside.

You have thousands of books. People are looking for them online right now. But they can't find your shop.

"What do you have in stock?"
Same question, by phone, every day. No way to show them without picking up.
500 books in a notebook
Handwritten. Faded. Impossible to search. Impossible to share.
WhatsApp photos of shelves
Blurry. Wrong angle. No price listed. 40 messages to close one sale.
Cash only, always awkward
Half your customers leave when they hear it. The other half don't have exact change.
Sold before it was listed
Someone came in and bought it. Now a reader online is asking for it.
AbeBooks takes 20%
On every ₹400 paperback you sell for ₹300, you keep ₹240. That math doesn't work.

Your bookshop, exactly as it is — now searchable.

List once. Readers find you on Google, Instagram, WhatsApp. Condition graded. UPI checkout. A 70-year-old shopkeeper or a 25-year-old can run it.

Features

Built for bookshops.
Not generic e-commerce.

Condition Grading
Fine, Good, Fair, Poor — the standard book trade grades. Buyers know exactly what they're getting before they come in.
ISBN Lookup
Type or scan any ISBN. Title, author, publisher, cover art — all filled automatically. A new listing in 30 seconds.
Your Storefront URL
A dedicated page for your shop. Searchable by title, author, condition, price. Share the link anywhere.
UPI + Card Payments
Accept UPI, debit, credit cards. Cash on delivery too. Payouts to your bank account every week.
Meetup or Ship
Pin your location for local meetups. Integrated shipping with auto-calculated rates. Buyers choose how they want it.
Bulk CSV Import
Paste a spreadsheet of 500 books and they all go live. For the shops with decades of handwritten inventory to digitise.
How it works

Live in a day.
Not a week.

01
Create your shop
Sign up, add your shop name and city. Your storefront URL is live in 2 minutes.
secondchaptermumbai.bookseller.in
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02
List your books
Scan ISBNs with your phone camera. Title and author auto-fill. Set the condition and price.
30 seconds per book
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03
Start selling
Share your link. Readers browse, pay online, and choose delivery or meetup.
UPI, cards, COD
Comparison

Built for books.
Not repurposed.

FeatureBookSellerCraigslistFB MarketplaceAbeBooks
Condition grading (FINE/GOOD/FAIR/POOR)Standard gradesNot supportedNot supportedPartial
UPI payments IndiaNativeNoNoNo (USD)
ISBN auto-fill (title, author, cover)Instant scanManualManualYes
Dedicated shop storefront URLYes, brandedNoNoBasic only
Commission per sale3% (bookstore plan)ZeroZero15–20%
Local meetup + shipping hybridBoth, buyer choosesText onlyYesShipping only
Built specifically for bookshopsOnly platformNoNoPartial
What bookshops are saying
"

I had 2,000 books in three different notebooks. Listed 800 of them in an afternoon using the ISBN scanner. Sold 40 in the first week.

Rajan S.
Old World Books, Bengaluru
40 sales in week 1
"

My customers used to call me every morning asking what I had. Now I just send them my store link. The calls have almost stopped.

Priya M.
Chapter & Verse, Chennai
847 books now listed
"

AbeBooks was charging me 18–20% on every book. BookSeller charges 3%. I'm keeping my margin for the first time in years.

Farhan K.
The Second Story, Delhi
3% vs 20% commission
Pricing

Free to start.
Scale when ready.

Individual
Free
10% per sale
  • ◆Up to 100 listings
  • ◆Condition grading
  • ◆UPI + card payments
  • ◆Local meetup pins
  • ◆BookSeller storefront URL
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$14/mo
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  • ◆Unlimited listings
  • ◆Everything in Free
  • ◆Your own shop domain
  • ◆Bulk import via CSV
  • ◆Sales analytics
  • ◆Priority support
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$39/mo
1.5% per sale
  • ◆Everything in Bookstore
  • ◆Multiple locations
  • ◆POS integration
  • ◆5 staff accounts
  • ◆White-label option
  • ◆Account manager
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Your first listing
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Thousands of books on your shelves. Readers looking for them online, right now. One link and they find you.

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