Bruce K. Hollingdrake Our review of the eBay search tool we promised will be coming this weekend, sorry for the delay. A fantastic story about following a dream came to us via the Old Bookstore group on Yahoo. It comes from Lera of The Novel Shoppe. – Thanks Lera. **************************************** May I take a moment and share my … Read more
Here’s a quick question from one of our readers. Sidney Woolf wrote The Twins from Ceylon in the early 1900s. Sells for around $100. She wrote a follow up: More About the Twins in Ceylon. One exists in Brit Library. One in National Library of NZ. None apparently in N America. Do you know anything … Read more
Are you a buyer or a seller on eBay? I’m guessing that since your visiting a blog on book selling you may be a seller. I’ve been selling for a while on eBay and have seen prices sink lower and lower while fees continue to climb, so much so that I’ve made the decision to … Read more
You’ll notice a new widget off on the left. It’s called Blog Rush and was just launched this week. For those of you that run a blog you may want to consider adding it. There is a video presentation on their website explaining the concept. As it is quite new, just launcehd this week, there … Read more
A new post by contributor William Smith of Hang Fire Books The Unkindest Cut In preparation for an upcoming move, I’ve spent the last couple of weeks (with more to follow) going over every item in my inventory and pruning the dead weight. This has been a painful but instructive process. First I ran a … Read more
Author Robert Jordan, who was best known for the Wheel of Time series of fantasy novels, has died of a rare blood disease aged 58. full story from the BBC …
Part I by Bruce Hollingdrake, your host at Bookshop Blog Have you scrapped a complete section recently? I fear that I’ve been a bit stuck in my ways. I assumed that any self-respecting bookshop should always have a nice supply of the ‘standard’ categories. Of course each shop will have variances based on locality and … Read more
One thing that independent booksellers should learn from the chain stores is that a customer wants a comfortable place to kill time almost as much as they want a selection of reading material. Of course not every independent can accommodate a café and comfy chairs–and we don’t want to encourage B+N-style abuse with people sleeping … Read more
