Bookshop Accounting, we love to hate it
The one part of my business I hate the most is accounting, marshalling those invoices, expenses and whipping them into order, bringing them into line and making them do the Continue Reading
Goo Gone – The Art of Removing Labels from Books
Find yourself in a bit of a sticky situation? All gummed up with nowhere to go! Yes, you’ve guessed correctly, it’s an article about the glamorous and exciting world of Continue Reading
Acrylic Display Stands
Acrylic Display Stands When it comes to selling tangible goods, presentation is everything. A cardboard display stand may work for paper backs, but hardback books may need something more. By Continue Reading
How to package a book for shipping
Books are shipped to many places across the globe. Have you ever wondered how they are packed to keep them tamper-proof until they reach the destinations, what are the costs Continue Reading
Do you want a Secondhand Booksellers Bootcamp in Australia?
In a previous post I mentioned a Booksellers’ Boot Camp I’d read about where sellers of antiquarian and secondhand books learnt so much about the antiquarian and secondhand book trade. Continue Reading
What do you do to help books age gracefully?
Quite often, when entering newly purchased books (used) you come across minor faults that you may gloss over until they get sold. By then, of course, you have forgotten their Continue Reading
Should All of my Books be in a Database?
Database ALL of it?? Not a day goes by that I don’t hear the question, “do you have any way to look up what books you have in stock?” And Continue Reading
Shipping with Bubble Mailers
I ran a bookstore for four years and received hundreds of books in the mail. The majority of them arrived in bubble mailers, this seems to be the preferred method Continue Reading