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New Book-Buying Website -- BlueRectangle.com -- Helps People Make Money on Unwanted and Used Books; Spring Cleaning, School Ending, Summer-Time Moves and Extra Cash Are Some of the Top Reasons People Discard Unwanted Books.


SAN LEANDRO San Leandro (săn lēăn`drō), city (1990 pop. 68,223), Alameda co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1872. Metal, wood, and paper products; chemicals; leather goods; foods and beverages; medical equipment; lighting fixtures; and , Calif. -- BlueRectangle.com, a new online book-buying website, is on a mission that will help people make money from their unwanted books. BlueRectangle.com's aim is to buy more books than anyone else. To help earn their customers' repeat business, they buy online the most variety of books. They are always open and always buying.

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 made the process as simple and easy-to-use as possible," said Michael Johnson Michael Johnson or Mike Johnson may refer to:
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, co-founder of BlueRectangle.com. "In addition to buying a wide assortment assortment /as·sort·ment/ (ah-sort´ment) the random distribution of nonhomologous chromosomes to daughter cells in metaphase of the first meiotic division.

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 of books, we respect people's privacy and only request online the absolute essentials regarding their personal information. Also, we have an 800 number available for people to call for help."

In three easy steps customers may sell their books to BlueRectangle.com.
1) Customers simply log on to www.bluerectangle.com and enter
       their books' International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs).

    2) Customers receive an instant online purchase offer (or
       decline).

    3) Customers ship the requested books; BlueRectangle.com pays for
       the postage via its merchandise return label.


BlueRectangle.com pays the customer within one to three business days of opening a customer's shipment.

"The books we choose to buy are based on supply and demand in the market," said Joy Johnson, co-founder of BlueRectangle.com. "Often people store books they don't read or want anymore, or they eventually sell them at a garage sale for a lot less than they are worth. We have created an easy online environment for people to sell their books and make extra money."

This time of year people are often thinking about discarding books, for example:
--  spring cleaning is in force and people are getting rid of
       unwanted items, including books.

   --  school is ending soon and a lot of students sell their used
       textbooks.

   --  summer time is a busy time for movers, and generally, people
       first get rid of things they don't need or use anymore -- like
       books.


The books BlueRectangle buys are in at least "very good" condition. Here are the types of books BlueRectangle.com buys more of:
1) Textbooks

  2) Non-fiction (business, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Science,
     How-to, Spirituality, Cookbooks, Biographies, Reference, Crafts,
     Politics, Hobbies, Home & Garden, etc. Generally, the narrower
     the subject niche, the better)

  3) Books published in the last 10 years (although, please check
     older books too)


Blue Rectangle generally doesn't buy:
1) Book Clubs

    2) Romance

    3) Pornography

    4) Encyclopedia sets

    5) Most pocket paperbacks

    6) Teacher's editions

    7) Advanced Reading Copies

    8) Corrected Proofs

    9) Workbooks with writing in them

   10) Books marked not for resale

   11) Books missing a large section of cover

   12) Books without ISBNs

   13) Books in bad condition


About Blue Rectangle.com

Michael Johnson and Joy Johnson, co-founders of BlueRectangle.com, an offshoot of their book company the Pacific Book Exchange LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol.

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, started their family business in their garage in 1997. Since then, the business has grown to 15 employees, utilizing 30,000 square feet of warehouse space. Pacific Book Exchange's eBay store (FreeBookShipping.com) is the 15th largest store of any kind on eBay and the third largest eBay anchor store anchor store
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A large store, such as a department store or supermarket, that is prominently located in a shopping mall to attract customers who are then expected to patronize the other shops in the mall.
 in the books category. Today, it offers 220,000 books online. Pacific Book Exchange has recycled over 1 million pounds of obsolete OBSOLETE. This term is applied to those laws which have lost their efficacy, without being repealed,
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 over 40,000 children's books in the last two years to the Children's Book Project, as well as book donations (up to 10,000 books) to local East Bay, California high school California High School (commonly referred to as Cal High) is a public school located in San Ramon, California, a suburb of San Francisco, Oakland, and Silicon Valley. Its mascot is a Grizzly Bear. The school's newspaper is The Californian which is published monthly.  and boys and girls boys and girls

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 clubs.
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