Once again it is time to see if any of you are interested in contributing a post to our site. The last time we put out a little feeler like this the result was very positive. We received a lot of very interesting articles, from a Dream of Opening a Bookstore to a fantastic trip to the Pulpwood Queen’s Girlfriend Weekend.

Of course we’re not the only folks writing about books and bookselling. Here are a few other tidbits for you.
Have a great weekend!
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
… ‘David Sedaris’s ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art,’ (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and [...]

With Dan Brown’s next book due out soon we’ve had a couple of discussions in our book shop about the values of books by Dan Brown. Unlike some authors that find a way to put out a couple of books every year, Dan Brown is considerably less prolific. He has published only four books in [...]

Science Fiction Bookstores - hidden jewels
Do you love visiting science fiction bookstores?

I wish there was on in my town. In fact I don’t know if there is are any science fiction bookstores in my whole province. I used to remember going to a great one when I was a kid but that closed down [...]

Bookstore Shelving
Bookstore shelving can be one of the more difficult decisions for a new shop owner to make. The look and feel of his shop will obviously be affected quite a bit as will his budget. Our bookstore has been open for three and a half years now, long enough to see how our shelving [...]

Imagine having a bookstore with a 12,000-square-foot lot filled with
Acres of Books. Now imagine having to move those books.

We are very happy to have a new sponsor here at The Bookshop Blog, Computer Books Online.
If you have a moment why don’t you pop over and give their site a once-over and if you like what you see then bookmark them for any future Computer Book needs. In our own shop we don’t currently [...]

Part 1 of Going for a Guinness Record can be found here
I promised an update on our attempt to set a
Guinness World Record selling Romance Paperbacks.
This was a case where the peripheral benefits
were far better than the direct benefits. The day
of the sale we sold 587 paperback romances out of
the 8,144 volumes we had. A [...]

In my experience, value isn’t necessarily in the book. It’s in the way one
sells the book. It’s in the person to whom one plans to sell the book. It’s
in the knowledge a bookseller has that allows him to identify a ’sleeper’ at
the bottom of a dusty cardboard box of library discards.

This quick post has nothing to do with books, unless you count creating a blog (not unlike this one) to help promote your shop. I have a few different online projects going on and read a Lot of blogs in an attempt to get them off the ground. Many were useful, some written by guys [...]