The listing of books stores on Houston.com now includes one more -- I added a free listing for the Barbara Bush Library Friends Used Book Store in Spring. The only danger of the free listing is that anyone can edit it. I did notice that a listing for the branch library itself was full of errors and had been co-opted by an outsider! I tried to make corrections, but was unable to do so.
It's ironic that the iHCPL-suggested Google search for book stores includes near the top of the second page of results a link to the iHCPL blog entry suggesting the search. It's a new type of circular reasoning.
Exercise 1: Nearby bookstores
Barnes & Noble, Champions Village location -- This store has been a good partner for us. We have an institutional buying card there, and get a 20% discount on all purchases. They let us do a book fair there periodically, and we earned an $895 gift card there from the last one. They also let us wrap gifts for tips at Christmas, which has been good PR as well as earning a little cash. They do have an online store that is easy to use, and great for building Wish Lists that I take to my local store.
Half-Price Books, FM 1960 and Stuebner-Airline -- This is a good place to buy new cookbooks, gardening books, pet books, etc. for the library using gift funds. It is also a fun place to buy interesting used items for personal use. It has an online website, but the inventory of the stores is not online and is continually changing. This is a place where you can sell your used books, although you are unlikely to get rich doing it.
Bookland, on Louetta and Stuebner-Airline in Spring.
Bookland is a used book store with a good selection of paperbacks. It does not have an online component. Neal, the owner, has been in business a long time, and has helped out with the Friends' annual used book sales in the past.
Cush City, has a retail store in Houston, Texas, located at 13533 Bammel N. Houston Rd., Houston, TX. It also has an online site at cushcity.com. Cush City has the world's largest selection of African-American items. The owner is the organizer of the National Black Book Festival happening at the George R. Brown Convention Center on May 16 and 17 this year.
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