For those of you wanting to hear responses from my inquiry about Better World Books, here they are. Thanks everyone! Good feedback. "We have had a BWB drop box in our lot since mid-June. Our patrons seem to like it, staff has less donations to sort through and we don’t have to wonder how we will dispose of surplus donations. We also like that nothing goes to a landfill, we can choose the literacy charity which benefits from our participation and we just received a check for $103 for the first three months. Our annual book sales have barely been yielding $200 so we are satisfied. We will also be adding a link to their website for selling and we will get a small percentage of the sales and can use it ourselves to buy retrospective replacements, etc. Let me know if you have further questions." "We have had good luck with Better World Books. So far we have only sent them 40 boxes of books that were withdrawn from our collection that didn't sell in our book sale and we have made about $100 in 2 months. These were books that we would have had to recycle or give to Salvation Army so for us it was a success. They are very easy to work with and they send provide the boxes. UPS is their shipper and they will pick up the boxes the next day so you don't have boxes of books waiting around. I highly recommend Better World Books, but I haven't used them for old or rare books." "We really like working with BetterWorldBooks – have been since 2007. The return on sales isn’t that great, but they provide the boxes and pay for the shipping so with minimal effort we are able to move old books out, and make a bit of money in the process. They recently stopped mandating the pre-screening process, and they will now take (almost) any books. We still pre-screen (using a volunteer), only because they have been so good to us and we can now use ROSIE to dispose of absolutely almost every type of media (and at no cost to us, as well). BWB also sells used books and we on occasion find books we need to buy from them. They are a great non-profit to work with; a percentage of sales from your books goes to support other non-profit literacy groups (you can choose which one). Customer service is great. I’ve not done a lot with their ARC (antiquarian, rare & collectible books) section – so don’t know if that still requires pre-screening or not. We get a check from them three times a year, and so far in 2013, we’ve received just over $100.00 from them. Our partnership with them has worked out great." "I have used BWB for some rare and not so rare books for a while. The return you get from them depends on what they can sell them for so its a little hard to say what you might get for your books. I have gotten checks from them that have ranged from about $50 to $400. The fact that they pay shipping cost for whatever you send is nice (although they do have a minimum number of boxes that you need to send at one time-and they do provide that boxes as well). I also post our weeded books up on an ebay site that I maintain. Its a lot of work and it might be more profitable, but BWB will be a lot easier if you don't have someone who can deal with all the issues that comes with selling thru ebay. Amazon does not work if it does not have an ISBN number, so it is not an option. I have also worked with a used book dealer, but I think we had a special case where he drove all the way in from Boston to see what we had. Would not recommend John King in Detroit-not likely to get much of anything from him. What you might want to do is check out Addall used book site http://used.addall.com/ to see if the books you have are really worth something. The prices listed tend to be higher than what you might really get (most of the time what I get from an ebay posting is nothing like what they list), but it will at least give you an idea if what you have is really rare. My experience for what its worth." "We have used BWB once to date. We did not send any rare books – we sent items that did not sell in our annual book sale. Our friends boxed them up after the sale. We had them picked up by BWB, a total of 40 boxes of books were initially sent. We were not very selective on what we sent. These were the books that are left over from the sale, we already selected some to go to the jail. We also pick out books to give to our local food pantry – so kids/adults that are there can select a book or two to take home for free. The boxes were shipped out a few months ago and to date, we have received $60.00. It was a lot of work for $60 (we could still receive a bit more…), but it is better than putting them in the recycle bin."