Shane Gottwals
www.gottwalsbooks.com
Gottwals Books, as of this coming Friday, is a 4-store operation. This would be adventuresome enough if all the stores were within a close proximity, but our newest location in North Carolina …

What we’ve been up to at Blarney Books…
Well, we do seem to be becoming a rather busy little bookshop these days, and some of it isn’t even about books! Our art side of the …

Directly around where I have my computer and cash register the books in the window are stacked head high to give me a little privacy from the people who liked to press their faces against the glass and stare at me from two feet away.

Laura Jenkinson (Jenks) first shared her idea in her introductory post: Bookselling, it’s in the bone
What ‘type’ of bookseller are you?
While in the process — the *slow* process might I add (to update you, I …

Part Seven, Cue Ominous Music (see bottom for links to the other parts)
There came a day when T. came to us and broke the sad news that the job of renovating the area upstairs at …

The Reader - Or was it “such stuff as dreams are made on”?
It was a chilly Gurgaon winter morning of the grey yellow variety when moist air clings to the smog and chokes out the sunlight. …

This is  a multi-part series describing Caro and Susan’s adventure in opening a bookshop.
Part 1:  We Got Handed a Dream In the Discount Card Aisle
Part 2: The Auction
It took us weeks to figure out a …

This is Part II of Susan and Caro’s adventure. Part 1 can be found here..
Knowing we had at least six months and possibly a year or even two before the space would be ready for …

Susan and I, Caro, are going to share writing about our bookstore experiences.  I am going to start, Susan will add some entries later.
I’m Caro and I’m a bookaholic.  I’m the retired librarian version; I worked 42 …

Flipkart.com – Read India Read !
While E-commerce in India has a long way to go before it can catch up with some of the western countries, it is surely growing by leaps and bounds. Leading …