A professional and sustainable solution for unwanted books
For many organisations, unwanted books can be an unexpected problem. Whether you are a house clearance specialist emptying a property, a charity dealing with donated stock, or an insolvency practitioner responsible for the assets of a business, books can take up a surprising amount of space and time.
They may have little obvious financial value, but they still need to be sorted, moved and dealt with responsibly.
That is where The Sussex Book Collector can help.
We provide a sustainable solution for unwanted books, helping organisations clear collections without having to spend valuable time working out what to do with them. For commercial arrangements we pay competitively and manage collections from business locations across East and West Sussex.
House Clearance Specialists
For house clearance companies, books are often one of the most time-consuming parts of a clearance.
A property may contain hundreds – or even thousands – of books. Some might have resale value, while others may be common paperbacks, outdated reference books or titles that are unlikely to sell quickly.
You could spend hours sorting through them, scanning ISBNs and trying to establish which books might be worth selling.
But even after doing that, you still have the problem of what to do with everything else.
The Sussex Book Collector offers an alternative.
Where a collection is suitable, we can take the books from an active clearance location as a whole rather than simply cherry-picking the most desirable titles. This means less sorting, less handling and fewer unwanted books left behind at the end of a clearance.
For a house clearance specialist, that can mean a simpler and more efficient service for your own customer – and one less disposal problem to solve.
Charities
Charities face a different challenge.
Books are frequently donated with the very best intentions, but not every donated book is suitable for a charity shop. Limited shelf space means that stock needs to earn its place, while some books may be slow sellers or simply not appropriate for the customers of a particular shop.
The result can be a constant stream of books that need another destination.
Rather than allowing usable books to become a waste problem, working with a specialist book collector can provide another route into the second-hand book market.
At The Sussex Book Collector, we believe that a book doesn't have to be valuable to have value.
A book worth only a few pence can still be wanted by somebody. A specialist title may take months to find its next reader, while another book may sell within days.
Our approach is to look at collections as a whole and give books the opportunity to remain in circulation for as long as possible.
Insolvency Practitioners
For insolvency practitioners, time, practicality and the responsible handling of assets are particularly important.
A business premises can contain books in offices, libraries, stockrooms, educational collections or specialist working environments. Determining the value and disposal route for those books can quickly become an unwanted administrative burden.
Individually assessing hundreds of books is rarely an efficient use of professional time.
The Sussex Book Collector can provide a straightforward route for dealing with unwanted book collections, helping to remove the physical burden of the books while assessing the collection from a specialist perspective.
Where appropriate, books can then be resold and passed on to new readers rather than simply being treated as waste.
A more sustainable approach
Books are already a product designed to be used more than once.
A book can be read by one person, passed to another, sold again, collected, studied, enjoyed and eventually passed on once more.
Keeping that cycle going is at the heart of what we do.
Where books have a realistic opportunity of finding another reader, we want to give them that opportunity. We use professional recycling services when all other avenues fail, but recycling is a last resort rather than the first destination.
For organisations looking to demonstrate a more sustainable approach to unwanted stock, that distinction matters.
We don't just want the easy books
Our approach is deliberately different from services that are interested only in the books with the highest resale value.
The books worth £10 help make it possible for us to take books worth pennies.
The books that sell quickly help support those that may take months to find a buyer.
That is how a small specialist business like ours can make taking larger collections viable.
It also means that organisations don't necessarily have to spend hours identifying the few books that might be worth selling individually.
We can do the difficult part for you with payments at a competitve rate either by quantity or weight.
Contact us today and find out how we can help your organisation.
Can we talk business with you?
We are a great fit for organisations looking for a sustainable and economical disposal solution for stocks of unwanted second-hand books, and we are always interested in exploring commecial opportunities, be they one-off's or long-term. To start the conversation please email using
