We have a special guest writer today. Jill Hendrix of Fiction Addiction and regular contributor at Bookthink.com has offered us some insight on growing your business. Jill has a terrific amount of experience selling used books online.
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Bruce’s recent post asking how to best grow one’s bookselling business got me to thinking. I commented on his [...]

Would this make you angry or sad for the guy? He’s obviously made some poor decisions in life.
We had a rather odd event happen last week that I’m guessing does not happen too often in smaller towns. A rather suspicious looking guy, who looked about forty five but may have been only thirty, came in [...]

Joe Orlando runs a great service for owners of Brick and Mortar store. Many of you are already subscribers, for those who own a shop and aren’t you may want to consider signing up. Have a question on return policies, buying out another store or simply pricing a rare tome then Joe’s Old Bookstore [...]

Our review of the eBay search tool we promised will be coming this weekend, sorry for the delay.
A fantastic story about following a dream came to us via the Old Bookstore group on Yahoo. It comes from Lera of
The Novel Shoppe. - Thanks Lera.
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May I take a moment and share my “story” with you. First, [...]

Part I by Bruce Hollingdrake, your host at Bookshop Blog
Have you scrapped a complete section recently? I fear that I’ve been a bit stuck in my ways. I assumed that any self-respecting bookshop should always have a nice supply of the ’standard’ categories. Of course each shop will have variances based on locality and [...]

One thing that independent booksellers should learn from the chain stores is that a customer wants a comfortable place to kill time almost as much as they want a selection of reading material. Of course not every independent can accommodate a café and comfy chairs–and we don’t want to encourage B+N-style abuse with people [...]

We have a guest writer posting today. John Goodman is a manager at Zeeba Books as well as a budding filmmaker. He shares his thoughts on colour and its effects on business.
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Colour your online and/or book world.
There are many theories concerning colour and how it affects the world and individuals. Conclusions may vary but [...]

We have a new contributing writer to introduce. George from Calgary (I’ll get his last name soon and see if he can share a short bio with us). Please take a sec to visit his website, Fair’s Fair - no online sales but a very nicely designed site.
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I have seen many bookstores come [...]

Shipping rates through Canada Post are ludicrous. If you are a recognized bookseller you are eligible for fairly substantial savings through the Canadian Booksellers Association. The association has worked out a deal with Canpar courier that gives us reduced rates and the reductions are substantial. A typical regional delivery with Canada Post will cost close [...]