Web Book Sale - Program - Sell Your Unwanted Books on the Internet

The Web Book Sale Program is a simple, free, no-obligation program that enables individuals to easily and profitably sell their unwanted books and other media on the Internet.

Do you represent a library, library friends group, school or other non-profit organization? If so, please click here.

Nothing! There are no sign-up, monthly or membership fees to worry about. Just send us your books and other media, and we will send you a monthly check for your sales!

The Web Book Sale Program payment schedule is simple and clear: You will receive 50% of the proceeds from the sale of your books and other media! The only expense item that is deducted from the customer sales price is the Internet marketplace’s commission fee on the sale.

For example, Amazon charges a 15% commission on all sales. So a book that sells for $100 on Amazon would earn you 50% x $85 ($100 less Amazon’s $15 commission) = $42.50!

Every month, Web Book Sale will mail you a statement showing all of your currently listed media items and all of your sales completed during the prior month. We will also mail you a check for your earnings that month, with no minimum and no month-to-month earnings hold-overs!

You obviously get the greatest benefit from the Web Book Sale Program by sending us items of value. We gladly accept all of the following media types in either new, like-new or gently used condition:

* Books-on-Tape, CDs, DVDs and VHS tapes must be in good playable condition with original casing, booklets and graphics.

The following is a list of helpful hints for selecting the items that will sell for the highest value:

In books, non-fiction is almost always better than fiction.

Popular fiction books are almost always worthless (unless it is a current best seller). If you have a current best seller, it still has value. Last year’s or last decade’s best seller is guaranteed to be worthless.

In books, the more esoteric the subject, the better. In CDs, classical, jazz, foreign and indie bands tend to be valuable. In DVDs, current releases, independent and foreign studio titles do well. For VHS tapes, anything not available in DVD format can be valuable.

University Press, small press, criticism, monographs and other scholarly books are great.

African-American studies, genealogy, golf, military, woodworking, needle work, gardening, hunting, fishing, boating, hiking, specialty cookbooks and other unusual “hobby” topic books are great.

Fantasy titles and manga (Japanese-style cartoons) are often quite good.

Religion and spirituality (especially new age and occult) books can often be valuable.

Any technical book, such as engineering, forestry, agriculture, medicine, mathematics, chemistry can be very good. Textbooks tend to lose their value quickly, and become almost worthless if a newer edition has been published.

Books-on-tape, Books-on-CD and Large Print editions hold their value long after the regular print edition has become worthless.

Reference books can be very good. Please do not send general knowledge encyclopedias or English-only dictionaries. Foreign language-to-English dictionaries, bibliographic sources, dictionaries on esoteric subjects (like music, engineering, botany, etc.), specialty encyclopedias, foreign language sources, and other reference works can all be very valuable.

Anything “unusual” is good. Most “common” titles are worthless, regardless of format (book, CD, DVD, etc.).

No! Just pack your boxes full of acceptable media, and we will take it from there.

Books that do not meet our selling criteria, or are not sold within a reasonable period of time (normally 1 year) are either donated to the St. Vincent de Paul Society in Atlanta, Georgia or are appropriately recycled. No book that we receive will ever find its way into a landfill.

The Web Book Sale Program utilizes the largest and most widely-used book and media selling marketplaces on the Internet to sell your media items. We have partnered with the following web sites to offer your media items to the largest possible audience, thus ensuring you the highest possible price.

The owners of Web Book Sale (a division of Friends Book Sale, LLC) have been selling books and other media on the Internet since March 2004, doing business as Scouter Page’s Book Shop. Scouter Page has earned the highest reviews for it’s ethical business practices, fast shipping and excellent customer service on all the Internet marketplaces we serve.

Since 2004, Scouter Page has successfully sold over 50,000 books, CDs, DVDs and tapes on the Internet.

It’s easy! Just click on Sign Up and fill out the e-form. Once we receive your application we will set up your account, and you are set to go. Pack up your first box or boxes, ship them to us, and wait for your first check to arrive! It really is that simple.