A ReBoot of The Bookshop Blog.
The ReBoot will consist of a brand new look, daily news and hopefully continued support from the bookselling community. You guys are what made this site with your contributions and links – thanks. As a more tangible thank you I will be displaying, for free, 125x125px ad spots for any independent book dealers.
Holy cow! We have a bookshop here in Montreal that is somewhat like this. The owner actually knocked over a stack on one of our recent visits. If you have any video of your own shop that you’d like to share just send it along to me. This particular shop is in Salem, Ma. If … Read more
Looking for comments.. What are you expecting for the coming year and for those that have successfully gone through previous downturns do you have any advice for newer owners?
The net has been cast now lets see if any great comments get caught. As a little incentive I will post a prominent link on our sidebar for one or two of the more interesting commentators. (for a couple of weeks).
Hi All! January 1st is a big day for us as we are changing how we do
business. In the past we would give a book credit for books that could
be used on more used books in the store, no exceptions. Most of the
time we were playing library as cash was coming in on amounts people
were spending over their credit but we are finding that people are only
spending their credit and nothing to pay the “rent” so to speak.
Just a quick note to let you all know that I’ve put a little space aside on the right sidebar of The Bookshop Blog as a spot to announce any upcoming sales or events you might be having. If you are planning a sale drop me a line and I’ll put up a link to … Read more
The Abbeville Manual of Style has just published a nice post on great book titles. While this is a nice post I’m realy just using it as an excuse to tell you about a terrific blog. Well written posts, a nice elegant design and plenty of useful links. If you have a moment give them … Read more
After a long layoff I’m back. I had deliberated a while on whether I wanted to keep this blog going or not. The main reason both for the deliberation and my recent absence is due to my moving our neighborhood bookshop from Bricks and Clicks to Clicks only. Some of you may know that I own Zeeba Books in Montreal. It was a tough decision but after nearly four years of having a terrific little Internet/Cafe/Bookstore I made the decision to return to the corporate world
Part 1 of this article can be found here Here’s some recommendations for common likes of tween and teen boys. There’s ones suggested for 6th-8th (age 11-15) and some for 9th (age 15+) and above. Ones with a * next to the title will probably be able to pass the “great literature test” and not … Read more
