The Beagle Books story starts off simply enough with humble beginnings. What began innocently many years ago as just a hobby for our founder, Michael, an avid book collector and animal lover, blossomed into a personal library of over 5,000 books.

Rapidly running out of storage space (and desperately in need of floor space to walk on!), he reluctantly began selling off parts of his collection to local bookstores and was surprised that they would only offer pennies on the dollar for his beloved treasures. At this point, he made a concerted effort to find other venues for his books and the natural choice was via the Internet.

From the very start, Michael decided to offer great books at a fair price. This philosophy of offering fair prices on the sale (and purchase) of used books has become a basic tenet of our business and engine for growth. What originally began as a hobby became a business.

Today we buy and sell thousands upon thousands of books every month. We manage all of our operations out of our new 18,000 square feet warehouse. With over a dozen employees, it's a long way since working out of an apartment and keeping excess books at a separate storage facility.