[Publib] Book Sale Prices

[Christine Hage]

We're a medium-sized, suburban public library and our Friends do a great job of running used book sales.  This year they will raise about $75,000 from book sales alone.

 

Our prices are pretty typical, 50¢ for paperbacks, $1 for hardbacks, $4 a grocery bag on the last afternoon of the sale.  We also have a "quality" corner that sells books from $2 up to $100.

 

The Friends have been selling items online as well.  We have gotten as high as $300 for a library discard and recently sold a discarded art book online to a university library for $100.

 

We're also doing well with a weekly book cart in our lobby.  Volunteers sign up to sit next to a regular book cart filled with fresh copies of recently donated items.  They could be coffee table books, book club best sellers, or just new looking items.  Those sell for $2 bucks each and we'll make about $10,000 off of that cart this year.

 

 

Christine Lind Hage, Director

Rochester Hills Public Library

500 Olde Towne Road

Rochester, MI 48307-2043

 

Voice: 248/650-7122

Fax: 248/650-7121

 

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