a guest post by Ed Dugan from I Need to Cook (if you love food, and who doesn’t, check out his site – pretty sweet.) All of us have read about that wonderful little bookstore on a little used side street where literary masterpieces can be found. In fact there was such a bookstore in […]Read More
Kylie Jakobsen
October 26, 2010
I have a great interest in decluttering and first encountered this principle in a book on home organisation and later in an excellent 1970s management book Timetrap: how to get more done in less time by Alec R. Mackenzie (Timetrap is available second-hand from Retrorocket). Pareto’s Principle is also known as the 80/20 rule and […]Read More
Magda Elsehrawi
July 30, 2010
Where is your bookstore located? Is it in the heart of the city or in a distant suburb? Are there lots of kids in your area, maybe schools? Universities in England? What kind of customers do you get? What sells the most in your store, and what are the questions most asked at the counter? […]Read More
Brian Webster
July 28, 2010
In the beginning, when we first started in the Internet Book business, we already had quite a few volumes to sell, but it became obvious that we neither had enough books or a wide enough range to do very well. What we needed was stock and variety.Read More
Suzie Eisfelder
July 26, 2010
This article is going to focus more on what all online businesses can do to look more professional. It came to mind when looking at an article on The Bookshop Blog and I noticed one of the authors had a gmail account. Whatever you do whether online or offline you need to be considering your […]Read More
Magda Elsehrawi
July 23, 2010
Someone will walk into your bookshop today. The first thing they’re going to go for is the whatever you push to the foreground – namely, your new titles and bestsellers. That’s great of course – but what are you going to do about those other books on the shelves that are no longer new, are […]Read More
Therese Holland
July 21, 2010
I, like many other secondhand book shop owning hopefuls, came here by the hobby turning to business route. One of the handicaps of this background is that your love of books can make it difficult to to decide when a book is simply not saleable and it has to go. And then off course, once […]Read More
Brian Webster
July 6, 2010
Just recently I was offered a batch of books at a good price but – take all or no deal. So we took them all, about 200. Obviously or first step was to sort the into A’s and B’s. A’s are 1st Editions, books we know are good, old paperbacks in good condition and others […]Read More
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