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I spent a recent lunch break attempting to clean off my desk while replying to email, listening to voicemail, placing a book order, addressing an employee concern, and actually eating my lunch. I kept kicking …

Well, Gottwals Books has been open almost 3 years.  We started with almost zero knowledge of opening a book store.  We had roughly 7500 titles in stock, and half of our shelving was bought at …

We have been asking ourselves this question for the last five years, but I think we are reaching the decision that we probably should.  The front of our building isn’t very welcoming, looking more like …

After years of dreaming and almost two years of planning, Jessica Stockton Bagnulo and Rebecca Fitting finally opened Greenlight Bookstore in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn. I’m well aware of Greenlight Bookstore’s opening even though I live 3,000 miles away and have never been to Brooklyn. How did they do that?

An update on Christina Ambrosia’s bookstore Odyssey
Ambrosia’s Books and More
Bad Summer at the Bookstore
This summer, though my first as a bookstore owner, was horrible.  I’ve been agonizing over closing the doors completely or waiting out …

Adam Bertram – I’ve been employed in one facet of technology or another now for about 12 years and really thought that it was where I wanted to go. However, like many of you, book selling hooked me…

There is no book or article that can map out your success, but there are plenty of highways toward failure. I know I have a long way to go, but you’re in a good spot when you know what you’re doing.

a guest post by Jo Canham of Blarney Books
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How We Came to Be: Part 2
Part 1 can be found here…

So here I am, sitting next to the baptismal …

A guest post by
P. J. Grath, Dog Ears Books, Northport, Michigan
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Christopher Milne (son of A. A. Milne) and his wife decided after World War II to leave London …