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Diane Plumley
April 8, 2011
I’ve been pondering and concentrating upon what I used to do all day as a bookseller. That aside, there was the slight difficulty of deciding which place of employment to remember–there were a few over the years, and each individual shop had its quirks and perks. Foul Play, a small well established mystery bookstore in […]Read More
Nora O'Neill
January 19, 2011
If you’re in the used book business you shelves pretty quickly end up groaning under the sheer number of volumes you have available. But sometimes the sheer volume can become an impediment to selling, especially with a physical store. If you’re online only, the only person that has to deal with the piles is you. […]Read More
Pamela Grath
December 13, 2010
“I have been invited to so many conferences on “The Death of the Book” that I suspect it is very much alive,” wrote Harvard Librarian Robert Darnton in an article in the December 23 issue of the New York Review of Books (“The Library: Three Jeremiads,” LVII:20, 22-26). Darnton went on to note that very […]Read More
Brian Green
November 9, 2010
"Don't ask me -- I just work here." Or, "Know thine inventory."Read More
Therese Holland
October 14, 2010
In my one of earliest blogs I mentioned that I visited the US on a semi annual basis to buy books. This started out in 2007 and I ended up in the Quad Cities to book shop with my friend Jo. I also attended a couple of Friends of the Library Sales in Chicago on […]Read More
Adam Bertram
August 27, 2010
Clean Up Your Inventory Act! Do you know that managing your inventory when you sell books online can be a very complex thing to do? You can’t just leave everything to chance while running your business. This is particularly true when you sell used books online. You’ll be faced with the problem of building up […]Read More
Brian Webster
July 28, 2010
In the beginning, when we first started in the Internet Book business, we already had quite a few volumes to sell, but it became obvious that we neither had enough books or a wide enough range to do very well. What we needed was stock and variety.Read More
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