Homebase and Atypical Descriptions
Ever wonder why some ABE bookdealers' inventory shows up as Unknown/Unknown?
Ever wonder why some ABE bookdealers' inventory shows up as Unknown/Unknown?
Corrupt Access database would've meant loss of important data. Luckily I found my backup: database repair can be expensive.
What will happen to the market for used books when people can just download out-of-print books?
Foolish collectors pay too much for The Apprentice: A Novel. Nobody will want it a year from now.
It was too hot in the shop and in Durham, NC. And internet ecommerce sales were at an all time low.
Why are first editions valuable and why would anyone collect them?
People who visit my used book and CD store and pretend that they'd like to buy something when really they don't.
Books Do Furnish A Room in Durham, North Carolina celebrates 21 years of doing business.
A young woman, a girl came into my used bookshop looking for a copy of Nabokov's Lolita.
We don't sell textbooks. Pity the average person can't distinguish them from academic and scholarly books.
Who makes marginal notes, underlines words in James Bond novels?
Aliteracy increasing in America. Women ready more literary books than men.
Honest people leave change on my used bookshop's porch for the cheap books they take when we are closed.
Sorry (not really) we don't sell Rush Limbaugh books.
My used bookshop has a mailing list, we send out cutomers offering discounts or announcing sale days.
The art and science of used book description and the frustration of buying a poorly described book from an incompetent or dishonest bookseller.
May has been a deadly slow month for us in the used book business both online and walk in customers
About weblogging, being a bookseller who owns a used bookstore and keeps a weblog
Nigerian scam emails placing wholesale orders for books
Some customers don't want their books bags, used bookdealers don't mind not paying for a bag
Size matters, some people want shorter books
Disappointing Christmas sales in 2003
Some books are more cheaply bought from the UK even new than bought used in the US
Drawing of a young man reading books, probably decadent poets
A photo of my used bookshop's interior
Used book and comic books sales sometimes get too damned slow, then there's the Christmas selling season
A photo of the outside of my bookshop in Durham, NC - Books Do Furnish A Room
Publishers complain that library lending hurts new book sales
Lamas Brothers Newsstand in Savannah, GA. Running out of common books, making kids happy
Shoplifters stealing compact discs, CDs and used books.
Finding the ISBN for books that lack them or show an incorrect ISBN
Dumping all of our old Tom Clancy books
Buying odd lots of old books is a gamble.
Former customers come back and sell me books.
Bandwidth theft
Selling scholarly books to an urbane, erudite man. To hell with trashy books.
Better to be a janitor than a used bookdealer? Better than McDonalds, Wal-Mart.
Used bookselling weblog Aortal's site of the week.
Used bookselling: buying scholarly remainders and promotional books from Daedalus and Powells books wholesale
Buying used books, paying enough, sellers who feel cheated when they sell their books to a used bookshop.
Dr. Seuss, Kermit the Frog and Winnie-the-Pooh as self-help and business advisors.
ISBN matches.
Moving my used bookshop from Gregson Street to West Markham Avenue
Used bookstore that sold comic books and vinyl records.
Opening my used bookshop, Books Do Furnish A Room in Durham, NC.
Big Shot Comics Walter Koenig 's Warped Factors
Nigerian orders for used books, bibles
Used book dealer's weblog.
Selling stupid books like Why People of Faith Abandoned Rock Music and Why They're Coming Back
Used bookdealers who wanted to profit from D.J. Enright's death
Pricing old DAW sf books
Nigerian fraud aimed at used bookshop owners.
Pricing old Doctor Who books
Buying used books fairly and honestly.
The Whole World Sings : The Fans Behind Barry Manilow