I have a question for you seasoned sellers, those that have a thriving shop (or maybe two).
Have any of you made one single change, after having been open a few years, that threw your business up a level - kicked it into gear.
I find that as our own business nears the three year mark the [...]

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, [...]

Scratch a bookseller and find:
an escaped civil servant,
an armchair environmentalist,
and a 50 year old entering her third childhood.

Dana Richardson – Windy Hill Books

a retired vehicular placement specialist,
a high handicapper,
an eternal optimist.

Bruce Hollingdrake – Zeeba Books

a jaded media peon,
a dumpster diver,
A dragon greedily guarding his treasure.

William Smith – Hangfire Books

Today, we had a little girl in our shop (about 8 or 9 years old) who said she had some books she wanted to sell and would I be interested. I looked at them and they were, quite frankly, not worth anything - even someone like me who specialises in new books and is still [...]

Not a long post, just wanted to show anyone who may be thinking of starting an online bookshop what a great site looks like. You have probably seen Chrisland book sites, not that it isn’t a good way to start for many but they do all kind of look the same. Many shops start with [...]