Sell Us Your Books

Borderlands Books is currently accepting used books for cash or store credit.

What we’re looking for

Used science fiction, fantasy, mystery and horror books (and, very occasionally, other items – graphic novels by certain authors, odd or unusual coffee table books – if they will appeal to our customers). We DO NOT accept movie, TV, or gaming tie-in books (like Star Trek, Halo, or Forgotten Realms) or role-playing gaming books (like GURPS or Dungeons and Dragons).
If you have more than 12 books, please call ahead to ensure we have the staff to go through your buy in a reasonable amount of time. If we are too busy, and only one person is in store, we may not be able to go through your books.

Store credit may be used to purchase anything in the store, used or new, and does not expire. What we will “pay” for your books is based on the price we plan to charge - it will be 50% of our selling price in store credit, or 25% in cash.

Except when we’re buying collectible or unusually desirable titles, our selling price will be roughly half the original cover price – i.e., if you sell us a used paperback with a cover price of $7.99, we’d then be planning to charge $4.00 for it, so we’d offer you $2.00 in trade.

If you have a situation that doesn’t exactly fit within these guidelines – you have rare books that you’re not interested in selling below a certain price, it’s a collection too large to carry to the store – you’ll need to talk to the owner directly. Just give the clerk up front your name & phone number (or drop us an email), and the clerk will pass this info along to the owner, who’ll get back to you as soon as possible.