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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.
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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 [...]
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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.
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Guinness Record Update
2008-04-21 12:18:00
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 the 8,144 volumes we had. A [...]
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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.
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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.
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Shall I compare thee…In Praise of Ex-library books
2008-04-11 09:20:50
Shall I compare thee to an unread text? Thou art less lovely but more affordable Rough hands withdraw them not nor their pages vex...
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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 [...]
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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: Hints , Bookstore , Windows

You Think Moving Your home is a Pain, Try This.
2008-05-13 14:35:27
Imagine having a bookstore with a 12,000-square-foot lot filled with Acres of Books. Now imagine having to move those books.
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