Books

Alter Books Local/Sell

Address 713 Mifflin Avenue, Wilkensburg Phone 412-244-9660 Notes The owner Harry Alter has been in business for 10 years and is collecting hard to find used and out of print books. By appointment only.

Amazon (Online/Sell)

Website www.amazon.com Notes You can sell your used books simply by opening an account and listing an ISBN number. Want to use Amazon but don't have the time nor do you feel tech-savvy enough? Call Paul Thompson with Plum Circle and he can take the books he thinks will sell and can sell them online for you.

Book Connection

Address 20555 Rt. 19, Cranberry Twp.PA 16066 Phone 724-772-5988 Notes It has over 40,000 books and offers 1/4 of the cover price in trading credits at the store (no cash) and sells books for 1/2 the cover price. You can drop off one, large box or two grocery bags full of books without an appointment.

Books for Africa

Address Office: 253 East 4th Street, Suite 200, Saint Paul, MN 55101 USA; Books for Africa Warehouse (most donations go here) 2971 Olympic Industrial Drive, SE, Suite C, Smyrna, GA 30080 Phone (651) 602-9844 Fax (651) 602-9848 Email bfa@booksforafrica.org Website http://www.booksforafrica.org/ Notes Books for Africa's mission is to end the book famine in the continent of Africa. They have been the world's largest shipper of books to Africa since 1988.

BookScouter.com

Website http://bookscouter.com/ Notes BookScouter.com makes selling your textbooks easy by quickly searching various sites that will buy your books. Their technology submits the ISBN to each of the sites, just like you would. Then, it displays the prices from all of those sites so that you can see the range of offers and decide to whom you want to sell your books.

Caliban Book Shop

Address 410 South Craig Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Phone 412-681-9111 Website http://www.calibanbooks.com/shop/caliban/index.html Notes John Schulman at Caliban Books purchases and appraises books, especially philosophy, art, photographic, poetry, cultural and literature critiques and 1st editions. They typically do not take "best sellers." John also appraises book collections and will pick up some collections. Call first.

CAPA High School

Notes They will take donated sheet music. Ask for Mr. Nath.

Cash 4 Books

Address McKenzie Books, Inc. 15370 SW Millikan Way, Beaverton, OR 97006-5138 Phone 1-877-243-5935 Website http://www.cash4books.net/ Notes Tired of trying to sell your books on auction sites to find that it is not sold and you have to repost it to try to find a buyer? Cash 4 Books makes it easy to quickly sell your books. Simply type in the ISBN, and they will give you a price for your book. The books are then sold on their website McKenzie Books (www.mkzbooks.com). You can watch their video tutorial or check out their FAQ page for more information.

Duncan Books

Address 1047 Perry Highway, Pittsburgh, PA 15237 Phone 412-635-0886 Website www.duncancomics.com Notes This business buys and trades strictly fiction, comic, sci fi, mystery, and horror books. Duncan trades at half of what they sell. He pays 10-15 percent of cover price and makes offers on collectables at 40 percent of book value. It is best to call the owner, Tom, for an application.

Half Price Books

Phone (800) 883-2114 Website http://www.hpb.com/ Notes The store is bright, clean, organized, and user-friendly. I applaud their ability to take the must and dust out of books and sell it to the public to help keep books out of our landfills. Contact them to find a store near you.

Plum Circle

Address 4633 Buttermilk Hollow Rd., West Miflin PA Phone 412-974-1502 Email paul@plumcircle.com Website http://www.abebooks.com/plumcircle-west-mifflin-pa-u.s.a/2897011/sf Notes A new idea in selling books! Paul Thompson comes to you, takes the books he feels will sell on Amazon, lists them, and splits the profits 50/50! Plum Circle also handles music CDs, DVD movies, video games, and other media types that carry a substantial market.

The Children's Book Project

Address Mail: 45 Holly Park Circle, San Francisco, CA 94110 Warehouse: 290A Napoleon Street, San Francisco, CA 94124 Phone (415) 401-6315 Email info@childrensbookproject.org Website childrensbookproject.org Notes "The Children’s Book Project was founded to help build literacy by providing free, new and gently used books to children who need them." They have given over 1.5 million books to schools, homeless shelters, and community centers. They accept all gently used books from infant, board books to teenage novels.