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The average full-time, in-state undergraduate student pays $1,226 for books and supplies each academic year. As a former first-generation college student, Josh Lachs said these textbook costs can ...
Half Price Books, Records, Magazines, Incorporated is a chain of new and used bookstores in the United States. The company's original motto is "We buy and sell anything printed or recorded except yesterday's newspaper", and many of the used books, music, and movies for sale in each location are purchased from local residents.
ThriftBooks is a large web-based used bookseller headquartered near Seattle, Washington. [3] ThriftBooks sells used books, DVDs, CDs, VHS tapes, video games, and audio cassettes. ThriftBooks' business model "is based on achieving economies of scale through automation." [4]
In January 2025, the company started selling e-books. [10] With the model being, "Bookstores can use the platform to sell ebooks directly to customers, and when they make a sale, the store gets all of the money. Customers can also browse all of the ebooks for sale on the website, then choose which bookstore to support with their purchase.
a chain of brick and mortar stores that began selling books online relatively late, in 2008, after ending a marketing alliance with Amazon: Defunct as of 2011 Half.com United States: Online only: is an online bookstore which sells second hand or used books in United States: Defunct as of 10/31/17.
A store of used books in Madrid A second-hand book store in the United States. Used bookstores (usually called "second-hand bookshops" in Great Britain [1]) buy and sell used books and out-of-print books. A range of titles is available in used bookstores, including in print and out-of-print books. Book collectors tend to frequent used book stores.
Follett Corporation was founded in 1873 when Charles M. Barnes opened a used book store in his Wheaton, Illinois, home. [4] Three years later, Barnes moved his business, now named C. M. Barnes & Company, to Chicago where he opened a store at 23 LaSalle Street. Here, he sold new and used textbooks, stationery and school supplies. [5]
For bookstores with at least 4 locations, see list of bookstore chains. Bart's Books in Ojai Booksmith, San Francisco The Last Bookstore, Los Angeles Kramers (bookstore) Harvard Book Store, Cambridge Bluestockings in Manhattan The Mysterious Bookshop, Manhattan