Before you buy your bookcases for your new bookstore, take some time to figure out what display method will be the easiest for you to maintain and show your books off to best advantage.

More and more, I am convinced that what we are selling in a bookstore—and here’s an area where the bricks-and-mortar business differs sharply from online selling—is a total experience. In my bookstore, philosophy is often the focus of an impromptu salon…

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Shane Gottwals
Gottwals Books
www.gottwalsbooks.com
What are those “extra” items you keep in stock?  My wife and I have recently begun to carry educational puzzles and toys, with mixed success.  (I, of course, want them to fly off …

I have no idea how many comments I’ve fielded about how synonymous a used bookshop and a coffee hangout are.  It’s just the perfect, most fitting environment for it, right?  I mean, you’re sitting around …

One of the first things we did as we were getting settled in on the first day was to look for the HIGHEST PRICED BOOK IN THE INVENTORY. We wondered: What does a 150 year old $1400 Angler book look like? The book was nowhere to be found!

This has got to be one of the most charming couples I have seen. Meet the professor and the farmer and one of the most interesting bookstores I have yet seen.
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The Bookshop Blog will be opening a new section on the site and we need your help. We will be starting up a Bookstore Profile section in the hopes of giving you a little insight into your fellow bookshop owners, at the same time we hope that we can promote your shop a bit.

Yet another customer sighs and notes that owning a used bookstore is
the ultimate dream job. She muses on how lovely it must be for me to
be surrounded by books, reading in between helping readers …

Sure, I have a shiny new magnetic name tag that, in lieu of my real name reads, Bookseller. Yet, instead of this title, it could read Book Finder, Computer Tech, Cleaning Lady, Don’t ask me – I’m new and, most importantly, Customer Service Agent.