Austin Independent Businesses Join Forces

April 15, 2010 - PRLog -- Nationally acclaimed BookPeople is now buying used books with the help of an online book retailer, Blue Rocket Books, providing Austin readers with a new option to sell their books.  A unique aspect of this partnership is that customers can check the value of their books via the Blue Rocket Books website.  When customers bring books to BookPeople to sell, they are offered payment in cash, or an additional 5% if they choose BookPeople store credit, helping to put more money to work in the local economy.  Blue Rocket finds a new home for the used books, and BookPeople is able to offer a new service to the Austin community.  

Blue Rocket initially focused on buying textbooks nationwide.  However, after listening to community feedback relating their experiences in attempting to sell their used books locally, the founders realized there was a great opportunity to serve the local market in cooperation with BookPeople.  “BookPeople has a wonderful local presence, but was lacking a service we could provide,” explains co-founder, Karen Dudzinski.

“It is a good synergistic relationship,” says Steve Bercu, CEO of BookPeople. “We only sell new books, and now our customers have the ability to recycle them into cash or store credit.”  Customers can bring their books to the buy desk at BookPeople and receive a quote in minutes or check the value online before hand.  “It is really cool that people now have the opportunity to check the value of their books online - they no longer have to lug them around to get offered pennies,” says Bryan Sansone of BookPeople.

http://www.bookpeople.com and http://www.bluerocketbooks.com are currently offering buyback services every Tuesday and Thursday from 3pm-7pm.

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Blue Rocket Books provides textbook buyback (with free shipping), book rental price comparison, and online retail of used and new books. For every book we buy online we donate a book to a local literacy program and support alternative energy organizations.