Also, Alibris helped booksellers stay current in the market in 2002 by allowing distributors to send books directly to buyers instead of to the distribution center, thus reducing costs for both parties and lowering costs for customers. Alibris has consistently worked with its partners by directly listing their books to large sellers like Amazon and Barn's & Noble, maintaining the marketplace concept that "they will sell their books everywhere we remove them everywhere, and everyone benefits." Alibris also partnered with libraries that wanted to do business and worked to make sales between retailers and libraries in an automated and streamlined process. Alibris also worked with book publishers and purchased returned books which they then sold to Sparks, this allowed both the publishers and Alibris to profit from what was an unwanted and priceless book. This greatly increased the web availability of books and provided them to both small book distributors and large distributors such as Borders. Finally, Alibris has sought to teach its business partners the benefits of automated pricing tools that can adapt to market conditions and the need to constantly evolve in the online world.