Must-haves in Your Stock (I)
By HeeJin Lee
As an aspiring bookshop owner, I’ve been spending my free time fantasizing of the books I’d like to have in my stock. I’ve been inspired by Shakespeare and Company by …

Last fall, Horace Engdahl, permanent secretary to the Swedish Academy that picks the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, created quite a stir when he called the US “too insular” because …

Summer, time to kick back, relax, read some total junk while lying around the pool…  Or at least that’s what most adults get to enjoy.  For high school students it often means a summer slogging …

The more you know about a book, the easier it is to hand sell it. At the invitation of Literary Affairs , I was able to attend a breakfast interview with Linda Olsson about her latest book, Sonata for Miriam.

Join me now in stoking up the fire, filling the tea kettle and
hammering back at the foul weather with a blanket, optional lap cat
and one of the following books: [Read On...]

One of my favorite type of books to read are memoirs of other dealers and books by folks that just love being surrounded by them (the books and the dealers). I’ve loved most of Basbane’s …

In January I asked some of our writers what their best business moves were for 2007.
George from Fairs Fair Books mentioned improving methods and procedures. With that comment came a recommendation to read The E-Myth …