I thought I should share with you what’s recently occurred in my shop as a direct and in-direct result of blogging with this site.  It’s all good, and this article is meant as a thank …

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Handling historical material that contains racist material is difficult but worth doing. To forget the bad parts of history increases the odds of repeating them. WARNING: this post contains photos of books from the 19th and early 20th centuries that will likely offend some readers!

A remodeling project at a bookstore goes awry when the owner discovers a boarded over door in the wall. It sounds like the set up for a horror novel, but this sort of thing is common if you’re remodeling an old bookstore.

Must-haves in Your Stock (II)
Part I of Must-haves in Your Stock
By HeeJin Lee
It’s great to hear from those of you who have also been thinking about your must-haves. One bookshop that carries an eclectic selection …

The Benchmark of Bookstore Sales Performance
By Louis Gereaux
Many of us who have become bookstore owners have a passion for books.  To live the dream as a professional bookseller, we also need to maintain a strong …

There are many advantages that a VPS hosting offers compared to other types of hosting. If you’re looking for a better feature than a shared hosting could provide but just don’t have enough budget to …

This is not a strength of mine. I am not a haggler. I walk into a store and ALWAYS pay the price that is being asked. I am trying to change this particular trait – it is not beneficial to my business to pay full price for something I’m trying to on- sell. That’s the nature of our chosen job isn’t it? We want the best quality for the lowest price, and then want a discount on top of that because our margins are so tight.

All booksellers of used books will have at one time or another come across the word dog-eared. What does that word mean anyway, and where did it come from? Dog eared pages are less common in today’s fast turn around of used books. Many used book are almost new. It might be that more readers are using the bookmarks we stick in our books for sale, who knows? But the term dog eared means a turned down corner of a book page.