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West Circle Books is a specialty book jobber to libraries exclusively.
Our mission is two-fold:
- to provide deeply-discounted, general nonfiction books for adults and children, and
- to offer non-discounted but harder-to-find small press and frontlist titles.
Virtually every library uses what we call a “demand jobber.” The term comes from that vendor’s desire to receive an order from a customer who asks (or, “demands”) the vendor to acquire the books from the respective publishers and ship them to the library in a timely fashion. This is an essential service for libraries, and a few large companies provide this service well.
There are also several excellent but small, niche companies in the library distribution business known as “specialty jobbers”. At West Circle Books, our niche, or specialty, is to anticipate the kinds of subjects that generalist libraries are going to want. But in addition to looking for exciting new titles on, say, gardening, interior design, and bicycle moto-cross, West Circle Books is also looking for bargains!
Our goal is to find attractive, well-written and well-illustrated books that are also bargain-priced. Our customers often ask how can we offer such beautiful books at such low prices. The answer is that we bid on large lots of remainders, reprints, out-of-prints, imports, consignments, promotionals, and specialty books. When our bids are accepted, we know that we’ll be able to offer those titles to libraries at an average of half-off from list or value price. That is our specialty. |