Bruce K. Hollingdrake 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
AbeBooks has reached an agreement to be acquired by Amazon.com, Inc. This is a major landmark in the 12-year history of AbeBooks.
AbeBooks will continue to operate as a stand-alone business with all aspects of AbeBooks’ bookseller and customer experience remaining intact.
[editor’s note] Paul Young has been a friend to The bookshop Blog from just about our start. We appreciate his constant input and would love if you went for a little visit to his online shop. Here is a little profile… ****************** I’d been selling books (Amongst other items) on eBay for quite a few … Read more
Yesterday, I picked up the key for a strip mall storefront that I hope to transform into a
profitable used bookstore. The store, cleverly named Blue Plate Books, aims to serve up a
healthy helping of books at affordable – ‘blue plate special’ – prices. Our byline? “Feeding
Your Need to Read”
