Bruce K. Hollingdrake Simply sign up to join our soon-to-be-launched forum On December 1st The Bookshop Blog will be launching its very own forum. Booksellers helping Booksellers will be the gist of it. We are currently collecting names of those of you who may be interested in joining our New Forum. One of you will win $40.00 to … Read more
Here are some thoughts on Amazon’s Kindle eBook reader from Tony Leblanc of Cover to Cover Books. ****************** I’m not sure if the purchase of a printed book includes an electronic copy – my interest is more how many printed book sales Kindle will replace. For someone who doesn’t mind reading on it, paying $9.99 … Read more
We have a special guest writer today. Jill Hendrix of Fiction Addiction and regular contributor at Bookthink.com has offered us some insight on growing your business. Jill has a terrific amount of experience selling used books online. ******************* Bruce’s recent post asking how to best grow one’s bookselling business got me to thinking. I commented … Read more
Looks like Amazon is set for an attempt to conquer the eBook market with a new reader called the Kindle. CNet tells us that they plan a big launch on Monday with Mr. Bezos himself. Poor little eBooks have been waiting for years for the killer app (or killer vehicle to be more precise) to … Read more
I have a question for you seasoned sellers, those that have a thriving shop (or maybe two). Have any of you made one single change, after having been open a few years, that threw your business up a level – kicked it into gear. I find that as our own business nears the three year … Read more
A quick roundup… For bloggers: Blogrush has stepped things up. They have added many new categories including..books! If you are looking for ways to generate some more traffic to your blog this is a pretty nice tool (it’s the widget down below left). More info on how they work can be found here. For book … Read more
Another post from William Smith at Hang Fire Books William has a terrific blog himself, definitely one worth bookmarking! ************* When I attend sales by private owners, I’m often faced with the question of how to present myself and explain what I do. If the seller contacts you through your shop or a directory listing, … Read more
One of the comments left in response to our posting of Guy Weller’s talk about bookseller’s empowerment was by Chris Hartmann. Chris mentioned that Tom Folio has been doing what Guy is talking about for years now. I replied with an invitation to anyone in the know at Tom Folio to share with us what … Read more
