About Petaluma Paperbacks

Who We are

Petaluma Paperbacks started as Paperbacks Unlimited Inc.'s second store in 1978. I became a regular customer when we moved to Petaluma in 1980. I was a life-long book addict, and this was a store that worked for me=I would bring in my bag of books, get another bag of books which I hadn't read yet (hopefully…) and not pay that much for them. That worked very well until 2003, when I heard the owner talking about what sounded like the sale of my favorite bookstore. After some discussion with him, I decided to get my book buying to the next stage - just buy them ALL! We have continued the same policies that served me so well as a customer for all those years, keeping me in books without me having to choose between paying PG&E and getting my next book fix (!). We have been and remain a family owned and operated business specializing in helping every reader find the books they need at affordable prices.

We have a great range of books available, with specialties in Mystery, Romance, Christian Fiction, Bible Study Helps, and Living, Popular Fiction & Best Sellers, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Western, Diet, Self Help, Biography, Literature, Cookbooks, Children's, and many different types of Non-Fiction books.

We are happy to help locate hard-to-find and out of print books, and to make every effort to get the specific books that our customers request.

Why Petaluma Paperbacks Is The Best
Deal On Books

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Petaluma Paperbacks is absolutely the best deal available for people who read (or listen to) a lot of books. Here is how it works for our customers, (and why it makes $o much $en$e to them!):

We begin by pricing almost every book at approximately ½ of the publisher's listed price, so without any other considerations, ringing up ten mass market paperbacks with a cover price of $99.9 each would cost $108.90 with tax; the same books at our price would be $54.50 with tax. Now, if you add a trade in credit to that (See Trading: How it Works) a customer could use a maximum of $35.00 in credit toward the $50.00 subtotal, so with the tax on the total added, the same books that would have cost $108.90 at the other bookstore's cash register would cost our customer only $19.50, and THAT is the best deal in town!