Some tips from the Pros on how to operate a successful bookshop.
I’ve had crap days turn into splendid days just by noticing the smiles of strangers. – BH There was a forum topic on MySpace just asking to write one sentence. That was what I came up with. On to bookselling… What percentage of your sales comes from sidelines? One of our goals this coming year … Read more
Another terrific article from one of our regular contributers. Take a moment to say Hi to Nora at Rainy Day Paperbacks. If you’d like to contribute a posting just send me an email (editor@bookshopblog.com) ***************************** When you have a limited amount of space, you must make the best use of what you have. This means … 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
Would this make you angry or sad for the guy? He’s obviously made some poor decisions in life. We had a rather odd event happen last week that I’m guessing does not happen too often in smaller towns. A rather suspicious looking guy, who looked about forty five but may have been only thirty, came … Read more
Joe Orlando runs a great service for owners of Brick and Mortar store. Many of you are already subscribers, for those who own a shop and aren’t you may want to consider signing up. Have a question on return policies, buying out another store or simply pricing a rare tome then Joe’s Old Bookstore list … Read more
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
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
