Shane Gottwals
www.gottwalsbooks.com
Want to open a bookstore? Don’t want it to fail?
I’ll assume both of these are affirmatives since you have come to The Bookshop Blog. In the business world, there are few …

I don’t think I’ll ever feel such a mixture of inordinate glee and absolute terror as that thought gave me. Opening a bookshop, the very phrase, filled me with paroxysms of delight. I was completely in love with my imagined atmospheric and dark shelves, full of books and decorated with…

Five years ago I decided I wanted to own a used bookstore.  Four years ago, I decided it should be both online and “brick and mortar.”  Three and a half years ago I purchased my domain name …

I want to own a bookstore.  Put more accurately: I want to own a bookstore and so does my girlfriend.  She’s currently in grad school so I have two years to prepare before we begin.  Right now my …

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. …

I live in a regional mining town in Queensland Australia with a population of
90,000 and over the last few months a friend of mine have decided that we
are going to start researching our business idea.
We …

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 …

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 …

The bestsellers on the used market aren’t necessarily the best sellers you see on the New York Times list or on Amazon’s hot list.  Often they bear no relation to each other.  However, statistics on …

So you’ve just bought yourself a bookstore. Congratulations.  You asked all the big questions before buying, rent, utilities, cash flow, inventory, etc.  but before the old owner moves to Florida make sure to ask some …