Half-Price Books is a chain of bookstores that deals in used books and remainders. Ken Gjemre and Pat Anderson opened the first store in 1972 in a space that was formerly a laundromat, in Dallas, Texas. Half-Price Books now has 64 stores in ten states.
The stores tend to be rather strong in remaindered math, science and art books and have a decent selection of used fiction and science fiction. There are some locations, though, that do not seem to have much of anything interesting.
Half-Price Books has stores in the following cities and metro areas:
- Arizona: Tempe
- California: Berkeley, Concord, Fremont
- Indiana: Indianapolis (3 stores)
- Iowa: Des Moines
- Minnesota: Twin Cities (5 stores)
- Ohio: Cincinnati (2 stores), Cleveland (3 stores), Columbus (3 stores), Dayton
- Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh (4 stores)
- Texas: Austin (4 stores), Bryan/College Station, Corpus Christi, Dallas (8 stores), Fort Worth (5 stores), Houston (6 stores), San Antonio (4 stores)
- Washington: Seattle (7 stores)
- Wisconsin: Madison (2 stores), Milwaukee (3 stores)
Half-Price Books also sells books from www.halfpricebooks.com