Bruce K. Hollingdrake Of course we’re not the only folks writing about books and bookselling. Here are a few other tidbits for you. Have a great weekend! When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris … ‘David Sedaris’s ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art,’ (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to … Read more
With Dan Brown’s next book due out soon we’ve had a couple of discussions in our book shop about the values of books by Dan Brown. Unlike some authors that find a way to put out a couple of books every year, Dan Brown is considerably less prolific. He has published only four books in … Read more
Science Fiction Bookstores – hidden jewels Do you love visiting science fiction bookstores? I wish there was on in my town. In fact I don’t know if there is are any science fiction bookstores in my whole province. I used to remember going to a great one when I was a kid but that closed … Read more
Cheap Shelving Cheap shelving for your bookshop can be one of the more difficult decisions for a new shop owner to make. The look and feel of his shop will obviously be affected quite a bit as will his budget. Our bookstore has been open for three and a half years now, long enough to … Read more
Imagine having a bookstore with a 12,000-square-foot lot filled with
Acres of Books. Now imagine having to move those books.
We are very happy to have a new sponsor here at The Bookshop Blog, Computer Books Online. If you have a moment why don’t you pop over and give their site a once-over and if you like what you see then bookmark them for any future Computer Book needs. In our own shop we don’t … Read more
Part 1 of Going for a Guinness Record can be found here I promised an update on our attempt to set a Guinness World Record selling Romance Paperbacks. This was a case where the peripheral benefits were far better than the direct benefits. The day of the sale we sold 587 paperback romances out of … Read more
In my experience, value isn’t necessarily in the book. It’s in the way one
sells the book. It’s in the person to whom one plans to sell the book. It’s
in the knowledge a bookseller has that allows him to identify a ‘sleeper’ at
the bottom of a dusty cardboard box of library discards.
