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Signage tips for your Bookstore 2008-05-06 15:04:06 Signage, the bane of every retail store’s existence. It often seems like customers don’t read signs at all. A good sign can increase business and make your store easier to navigate. A bad one can just be a big waste of money. Read more:Bookstore
Take a look at Computer Books Online 2008-04-30 10:36:35 We are very happy to have a new sponsor here at The Books
hop 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 currently [...]
Report from a Beantown Book & Antiques Fair 2008-04-29 09:30:28 Last weekend we had a booth at the Boston Antiquarian Book &
Ephemera Fair which was part of Boston Antiques
weekend.
..It's funny that a recent post here was about optimism, because no where is the typical
bookseller's lack of optimism more evident than at a book fair...
Some thoughts on organizing your Children’s Section 2008-04-25 07:58:07 Take My Advice-I’m Not Using It!
I love bookstores, all bookstores, in-print, out of print, paperback exchanges; whether they are dusty, dark and cluttered, or well lit and meticulously organized, if you take me to a bookstore that has a good selection of books, especially children’s books, be prepared to only see the back of [...] Read more:Children
, organizing
, Section
, thoughts
Excuse me; do you have this in Cantonese? 2008-04-23 08:14:50 Sure, I have a shiny new magnetic name tag that, in lieu of my real name reads, Bookseller. Yet, instead of this title, it could read Book Finder, Computer Tech, Cleaning Lady, Don’t ask me – I’m new and, most importantly, Customer Service Agent. Read more:Excuse
Guinness Record Update 2008-04-21 12:18:00 Part 1 of Going for a GuinnessRecord
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
the 8,144 volumes we had. A [...] Read more:Update
Are You An Optimistic Book Seller? 2008-04-17 08:21:47 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. Read more:Seller
Chapter 2. The Epiphany (dreaming of a bookstore series) 2008-04-15 12:33:08 "It doesn't seem like you really wanted to be an academic, any more than you want to work in publishing," he said. "The only job you ever really liked and were good at was working in the bookstore."
My lightbulb came on like a dimmer – slowly, but steadily. Read more:Chapter
, series
Blogger Unleashed (for serious bloggers only) 2008-04-09 20:25:42 This quick post has nothing to do with books, unless you count creating a blog (not unlike this one) to help promote your shop. I have a few different online projects going on and read a Lot of blogs in an attempt to get them off the ground. Many were useful, some written by guys [...] Read more:Blogger
, bloggers
, serious
, Unleashed
Hints from Heloise and Abelard about Bookstore Windows 2008-05-08 19:29:03 Yet another customer sighs and notes that owning a used bookstore is
the ultimate dream job. She muses on how lovely it must be for me to
be surrounded by books, reading in between helping readers pick out
the perfect novel; absentmindedly petting store cat Sam and sipping
herbal tea while ringing up stacks of books.
AS IF, as [...] Read more:Bookstore
, Hints
, Windows
What Gets Left Behind - Moving a Bookstore for Fun and Profit 2008-05-20 13:48:56 So we labor at plastering and rug removal, sheet rocking and painting (colors have been a chore to agree on - I won't ruin the surprise as to what we chose for a scheme, but some have suggested we'd have been better off with the pink) Read more:Bookstore
, Moving
Bookstore Shelving 2008-05-26 23:25:26 Bookstore Shelving
Bookstore shelving 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 see how our shelving [...] Read more:Bookstore
Science Fiction Bookstores Getting Tougher to Find 2008-06-01 22:13:15 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 down [...] Read more:Science
, Science Fiction
, Tougher
Tips on Taking Great Digital Pictures of Your Books 2008-06-03 20:03:04 Take your photos in natural light with no flash. You books will look best in sunlight. Artificial light may add a strange color tint to photos. Sun is always best. Use a sunny windowsill. Make sure the surface you are photographing on is clean and is relatively uninteresting. Don’t photograph them on your rug. Use something that is a single color... Read more:Books
, Digital
, Great
, Pictures
, Taking
Books by Dan Brown 2008-06-03 19:23:46 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:Books
Pazzo Books - A Moving Story 2008-06-13 14:06:10 It’s funny - when I was packing up our 20,000 books and all of the
associated detritus that collected along with them over the past five
years, I swore that had to be the worst part of the move. Before that,
when I was pulling down pink plywood, plastering over holes, sheet rocking
and painting, I pretty much [...] Read more:Books
, Moving
, Pazzo
A Few Other Bookish Sites for You 2008-06-13 13:22:44 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 wilder and [...] Read more:Sites
Do you enjoy writing about Books or Bookselling? 2008-06-18 08:02:50 Once again it is time to see if any of you are interested in contributing a post to our site. The last time we put out a little feeler like this the result was very positive. We received a lot of very interesting articles, from a Dream of Opening a Books
tore to a fantastic trip to the Pulpwood Queen's Girlfriend Weekend. Read more:enjoy
, writing
Bookstore Profiles - We Want to Hear About You 2008-07-03 18:34:46 The Bookshop Blog will be opening a new section on the site and we need your help. We will be starting up a Bookstore
Profile section in the hopes of giving you a little insight into your fellow bookshop owners, at the same time we hope that we can promote your shop a bit. Read more:Profiles
Another Great Site for Book Lovers 2008-06-23 22:10:32 Hi Guys,
I received a note from Ann Kingman of Books on the Nightstand introducing herself and her blog. I get requests like this from time to time but rarely publish the links as I find many of the sites are either just selling something or they are put together rather carelessly. So when I come [...] Read more:Great
, Lovers
The First in our Series of Bookstore Profiles 2008-07-16 09:00:35 We will be featuring profiles of bookshops and their owners. The goal is for you to get to know your fellow dealers, perhaps ask a question or two via the comments, and to show potential owners that it is doable. If you see a profile of a shop in your area please take a second [...] Read more:Bookstore
, First
, Profiles
Lolita and Nabakov Livin’ Large 2008-07-12 11:02:25 We’ve told you about Bookride before. As is the norm for the blog they have presented yet another gem. Bookride, as you know if you are a regular reader, is one of my favorite book sites. Brought to you by Charing Cross Books, they take an interesting, unique and/or important book and describe it with [...] Read more:Lolita
Podcast of Some Choice Books 2008-07-10 13:58:20 For your listening pleasure we have added podcasts by Books
on the Nightstand. Thanks to Ann Kingman for offering this to us, we hope it will be a regular feature.
Today’s segment features some of their favorite books. You can listen by clicking on the little graphic just below (if you are reading this in a [...] Read more:Choice
, Podcast
Books for the Boy that Does Not Read 2008-07-26 14:52:37 Every bookseller has probably heard some variation on “my teenage son/nephew/grandson doesn’t read. I want to get him a book. What should I get him?”
99% of the time, this is blatantly not true. He does read… otherwise why get him a book at all? The real question is actually one of these two, and its important to determine which: Read more:Books
Prying 1 Books 2008-07-26 14:28:39 [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…
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I’d been selling books (Amongst other items) on eBay for quite a few years
when the [...] Read more:Books
A Recipe For Starting A Used Bookstore 2008-07-20 15:41:23 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" Read more:Bookstore
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