Bookstore Profiles

Is your shop profiled here? Send us a blurb or two and some photos or a video, we’d love to give you some free exposure.

Brick and Mortar Thoughts

Some tips and suggestions from the Pros and how to operate a successful shop.

Elsewhere on the Net...

Some links to our fellow bookstore owners blog posts, web sites and any book related newsworthy items.

Opening a Bookstore

Some stories & shared knowledge on opening a bookstore. Learn all the ins and outs of getting your bookstore open.

Recommended Reading

Some good books both to help you operate more effectively and some just to enjoy, always with bookselling in mind.

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Summer Reading Lists 2009- It Could be Worse!
Friday, 3 Jul, 2009 – 21:32 | 6 Comments
Summer Reading Lists 2009- It Could be Worse!

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 …

Dana Richardson – Bookseller?
Friday, 15 Feb, 2008 – 19:01 | One Comment
Dana Richardson – Bookseller?

I officially made my transition from fanatic book reader to bookselling fanatic in 1993 when I was in my late thirties. I’ve always been a slow learner and it took me that long to figure out that I did not fit in either the academic or government environments.

Seeing Shelley Plain by R. Wilson
Friday, 15 Feb, 2008 – 16:54 | 3 Comments
Seeing Shelley Plain by R. Wilson

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 …

How Efficient is your Business?
Wednesday, 6 Feb, 2008 – 16:35 | No Comment
How Efficient is your Business?

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 …