My guilty pleasure is a place called Half Price Books. A lot of times they will buy out the last of warehouse runs, etc. I just bought a bunch of new quilting books at $5 each. These are pretty nice ones, but they are not hot-off-the-press-latest-book-on-the-market but I'm new to quilting so it works for me. It also carries used books in hard and paperback (I really like it when I can sell something back, but I find it hard to give up a book).