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Some tips and suggestions from the Pros and how to operate a successful shop.
Some links to our fellow bookstore owners blog posts, web sites and any book related newsworthy items.
Some stories & shared knowledge on opening a bookstore. Learn all the ins and outs of getting your bookstore open.
Some good books both to help you operate more effectively and some just to enjoy, always with bookselling in mind.
This has got to be one of the most charming couples I have seen. Meet the professor and the farmer and one of the most interesting bookstores I have yet seen.
For those receiving this via a Feed -- come drop by the site to see the video, they are a delightful couple and if you love books you’ll want to drop by this dream place.
A little recap of some of our posts from the previous month.
We invited some new writers to join us and were quite pleased with the response. One was Kim Allen-Neison of Bookstore People. Her idea …
What a remarkable couple! I’d fly to Wisconsin and rent a car to drive to this isolated part of the country just to browse their buildings of books. What the Dittmans are achieving can be compared to the monks in Ireland following the collapse of the Roman Empire and the beginnings of early Dark Ages. These monks saved the literature of Western Civilization until Europe could flower again in the later Medieval period and Renaissance. Hopefully we won’t experience an apocalyptic world where all knowledge is placed in jeopardy. Thank goodness for these people though. The castle building is amazing. They should seek some volunteers to help them inventory their collection. I’m sure there will be no shortage of book lovers to help.
I am convinced without books, there would be no such thing as education. To add to that, with books one can get all the education one can handle.
Books are making a comeback in our lives.
I think someone needs to introduce them to selling books via the internet. LOL
that look so creepy
I don’t know if I want to visit this place. My wife would never see me again.