Have books left after your library book sale? Smart Price Books offers a simple way to sell remaining books in bulk, helping libraries and Friends of the Library groups reduce leftover inventory while recovering additional value from their book sales.
A successful library book sale can still leave hundreds—or even thousands—of books behind. Storing, sorting, moving, or preparing those books for another sale can require valuable space, time, and volunteer effort.
Smart Price Books offers libraries and Friends of the Library groups a convenient way to sell qualifying leftover books in bulk. Instead of storing large quantities of unsold books until the next sale, your organization can work with a single book buyer to simplify the process.
Our goal is to help make post-sale cleanup easier while giving your organization an opportunity to recover additional value from books that might otherwise remain in storage.
We keep the process simple for libraries and Friends of the Library groups. You don't need to list every book individually before contacting us.
Contact Smart Price Books and provide some basic information about your library book sale, including your location, the approximate number of books you expect to have remaining, and when the sale takes place.
Photos and general information about the books can help us understand the size and type of inventory available. Depending on the collection, we may ask for additional details before determining whether the books are a good fit for our buying program.
Our team reviews the information you provide and evaluates whether the remaining inventory may qualify for a bulk book purchase.
If the books are a good fit, we'll contact you to discuss purchasing options and the next steps for completing the buyout.
Books that remain after a library sale can create additional work for staff and volunteers. A bulk buyout can provide a practical alternative to storing and handling the same inventory again.
Leftover books can quickly fill storage rooms, carts, boxes, and other valuable library space. Selling qualifying books in bulk can help reduce the amount of inventory that needs to be stored between sales.
Sorting, boxing, moving, and reorganizing unsold books can require hours of volunteer effort. A bulk sale can simplify what happens to a large portion of the remaining inventory.
Books saved for the next sale often need to be moved, stored, unpacked, organized, and displayed again. Reducing leftover inventory can help minimize this repeated work.
The end of your book sale doesn't necessarily mean the remaining books have no value. Some of the unsold inventory may still be suitable for resale through other channels.
Working with a single bulk book buyer can make the final stage of your library book sale easier to manage, allowing your team to focus on other library and community activities.
Our Library Book Sale Buyout service is designed for organizations managing large quantities of books after a sale or fundraising event.
We welcome inquiries from public libraries, Friends of the Library groups, nonprofit organizations, community book sales, and other organizations that regularly manage donated or used books.
Whether you have books remaining from a one-time event or organize recurring book sales throughout the year, contact us to see whether your inventory may be a good fit for our bulk book buying program.
Let Smart Price Books take a look. Tell us about your upcoming or recently completed book sale and the books you have available. Our team will review the information and let you know whether your inventory may qualify for a bulk buyout.
