Contact Us.

Reach out.

Have a great idea for an event? Looking for a specific book? Want to know where to park? (Hint: right around back!) Let us know!

We’ll respond within 48 hours of receipt of your message.

Call or visit.

Rather talk in person? Give us a call at 540-315-9650.

Or visit us at 401 S. Main St., Ste. 106, Blacksburg, VA 24060.

You can park around back (the entrance to the parking garage is on Clay Street) and come in our back door!

We’re open Monday-Saturday from 10-7 and Sundays from 12-5.

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Need a Recommendation?

Let us recommend a book!

Whether you’re looking for a new favorite read for yourself or a gift for someone else, we can recommend something! Fill out the form to the right, and we’ll email you our suggestions.

Consignment & Events

I wrote a book—will you carry it?

Thank you for your interest in stocking your book with us! Before continuing please understand:

We evaluate thousands of new books and field many event requests every year. It may take several weeks to respond to your request. Thank you for your patience.

We are receiving stocking requests from authors at an increasingly high volume every day. We cannot handle phone calls or drop-in visits. Our priority is receiving and shelving books and helping customers. Do not leave a copy of the book at the store or send one unless we request it. Unsolicited samples that are dropped off or mailed to us will be donated unread.

Books that we accept by local authors will be carried on a consignment basis. Please review consignment guidelines below and submit the stocking request form.

 

Guidelines

  • Due to limited space, our consignment program is only available to local authors, with preference given to authors living in Blacksburg and the greater New River Valley area.
  • If approved, the initial order will be one copy, and the consignment period is for 3 months. If that copy sells, we may contact you to bring in more copies. If your book continues to sell well, we may agree to extend the consignment agreement.
  • Any unsold books will be held for pick-up for 30 days. After that, any unclaimed books will be donated to the charity of our choosing.
  • If you are interested in having us host an event, we require first that you be accepted into our consignment program and that we are seeing sustained interest before scheduling an event.
  • We accept consignments year-round, except during November & December.

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Donation Request

Asking for a donation? Our policy:

Thank you for thinking of us for a donation for your fundraising event. Blacksburg Books is your independent, locally owned community bookstore. We love our community deeply and make every effort to support as many causes as we can! Please understand, however, that we receive a very high volume of donation requests. Weekly and sometimes daily, we are asked to make a donation, and, while we would love to support all the amazing organizations performing positive, enriching, or charitable activities in our community, we are simply unable to donate to every worthy cause.

Our first priority in giving is always for literacy, and we believe in supporting the non-profit organizations, groups, and causes that our customers support. We do not make donations to individuals or families, for-profit businesses, or non-local organizations. If your organization asks for a donation from us, and we are unable to find your board members or staff members in our customer records, we are unlikely to make a contribution to your organization, even though we appreciate the good work that you do in the community.

Our usual donation is a gift certificate to the store. Due to our limited budget, and our ongoing mission to pay our employees a living wage and provide them with good benefits, we are generally not able to make cash donations or buy advertising.

To request a donation, please submit the donation request form. We aim to respond within 14 days.