A used bookstore is the perfect place to find many books that can't be found anywhere else, she said. Along with buying and selling books, used bookstore trade books. I do get people who read a lot, but can't afford to pay for the habit. Some stores trade three books for one book. Others offer a percent of the cover price in credit, applied to the purchase of another book.
Several stores charge a trading fee to cover sales tax and other expenses.
Some stores have rules restricting what books can be traded for others, such as only trading science fiction for other science fiction, or romance for other romance. If they don't bring them back in and trade, you won't get them back. They keep them and collect them,'' Poindexter said. These rules help keep the stock of books from being quickly depleted, she said. Used bookstore owners have their own ideas about competition.