Its easy to get used books for 1/4 cover price.

• Used books start at 1/2 cover price- discounts to 1/4 price with equal value trade-in used paperbacks.
• New books start at full publishers price-25% discount with credit. 
• Check out the Sidewalk sale for books at 25 cents to $2.

Bring in your paperback books for credit anytime the store is open.  All books must be in salable condition, clean, with covers. - Please, not more than 100 books at a time.

We give credit at 1/4 *cover price for all paperback books (a $7.99 book is $2 credit, a $2.99 book is 75 cents credit) - We do not do much with hardbacks, a hard back is added as $4 for $1 credit.  If  your 15 paperback books turned in add up to $80 in cover price, that is $20 in credit.  We put credit on an account for you on our computer. Credit does not expire.  We keep  track of your credit, nothing for you to loose.

Our Used Paperbacks sell for 1/2 cover  price* - you pay as 1/4 cash + 1/4 credit.  So if you pick out $40 worth of books, that price would be $20= $10. cash (plus tax) and $10. credit.  Since you started out (from the above example) with $20 credit and used $10, we would save the other $10 credit on your account.

Paperback Swap N' Shop also discounts most  New Books, 25% off  with credit.  Our New Book  selection is small, so we support our customers with discounts, special orders, classroom set discounts for 10 copies or more of a single title.  Customers are welcome to look though our order catalogs of forthcoming books.  We enjoy ordering your books pre-release and call you when they arrive.  

Paperback Swap N' Shop very rarely buys books, if you owned a bookstore that went out of business or had hundreds of mysteries from the past 5 years or some similar situation, we might talk.  No trading books for books, all books in the store have a cash value. The electric company will not take books to pay the bill.

*Cover price is publisher price pre-printed on paperback books, or our best guess of original price if not pre-printed. The minimum price we count is $3 on a book that is 75 cents credit incoming or a sale price of 75 cents.

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History:

Marie Stimson opened Paperback Swap N Shop in Dickinson Texas in 1971.

         Jane Gray worked for her first part time then as manager and bought the store in 2005. The store is now also known as Jane's Paperback Swap N Shop.

    The store staff  (Jane, Suzy, Maria, and  Michael ) have combined experience over 40 years as booksellers.  We are all readers, and can share our favorites, recommend books, and just hang out with our customers who are the best customers in the world (ok, so my opinion may be biased).   This is a really great place to shop*  but we do have a couple of rules posted by the door:

• If you have a question, you have to ask it.
• If you don't have fun, don't come back

*The Galveston Daily News named this store as one of the "Best Places" in Galveston County, we were the only retail store so selected.

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Hurricane IKE:

On September 13, 2008 the store was flooded 26 inches by the rain associated with IKE.  The bottom 3 shelves, 9,635 books, which was about 1/3 of the store stock was turned to stinky mush. This picture was taken 2 days later. With hard work, good friends and by the Grace of God we reopened in 10 days.