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Getting your hands on good reading material is easier than ever before, with the massive growth in wholesale books over the past 30 years. Knowledge is gained one word, one sentence at a time. When it comes to reading, information is gathered one book at a time. But you do not have to buy books one at a time, for a high price, when dozens of suppliers have wholesale books ready for purchase.

Most of these distributors and book warehouses have thousands of titles on hand, some of them with both popular reading material and academic books in their catalogs. While it is often the right thing to do to buy a good novel or history at retail from a "brick and mortar" store if the item will be a special gift, there are also times when getting multiple books at greatly reduced prices makes a lot of sense.

Some distributors of wholesale books focus entirely on scholarly books, those from university presses and scientific experts. Others deal only with remainders and over runs from the publishers of popular novels. Remainders and overstocks are generally books that are returned to the publisher (in some cases the books were never shipped to a bookstore or retail outlet). Often these are marked in a way that does not hamper the enjoyment of the reader who might buy the book from a wholesale distributor of liquidator.

There are dealers in wholesale books that establish themselves as liquidators, working with just about any publisher and printer that needs help in moving extra copies. These liquidators may have every subject under the sun, including science, humor, cookbooks, novels, etc. Most merchants in the wholesale books industry have competitive bulk pricing available to bookstores (most have a reasonable minimum order level such as $50 or $100, or two copies per title). But this is usually not a problem for customers of distributors and liquidators in the wholesale books field, because overstocked titles and remainders can generally be purchased below cost.

Many wholesale books distributors work exclusively with retailers, libraries, book clubs and so on. While this may serve to eliminate some individual buyers, most companies that sell wholesale books require only registration and some additional information that establishes the buyer as a group, club etc. You may want to look for a distributor of bargain books or discount books, a company that separates itself from true sellers of wholesale books. Keep in mind that in just about every case, those who are established and reputable in the wholesale books business do not buy or sell used books. When you purchase wholesale books you are getting new product that has not been circulated to the public.

There are some distributors of wholesale books who maintain "retail" sites as well. These walk-in stores usually offer the same amazing range of titles that is available in the company's catalog or Web site list. In some cases, the price of an individual book may be slightly higher than if it is purchased "wholesale." But these outlets are really more like the discount or bargain book distributors mentioned earlier. No matter what your source for wholesale books, the titles you seek are probably available somewhere with the explosion of the wholesale books business in recent years.

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