How to Write Effective Book Descriptions |
I'm not sure how it is for most booksellers, but one of the most tiring and least interesting bookselling activities for me is writing book descriptions. Fixed-price descriptions are bad enough; aucti...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 22:36:00 GMT |
A Bookseller’s Guide to Using the Internet |
Pricing InventoryPart I: Where to Search for Comps Never before in the history of bookselling has there been a more accurate tool than the Internet for pricing inventory. Gone are the days when p...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:10:00 GMT |
Sell Books Online: How to Identify First Editions |
If you have decided to sell books online - used or antiquarian books, specifically - one of the first skills you need to develop is knowing how to identify first editions.The process of doing this, re...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:22:00 GMT |
Thie eBay listing is must reading |
You absolutely must look at this eBay listing. Isn't that the most entertaining and well-written eBay listing ever?True, she's not selling a used book, but we booksellers can learn from this lis...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:06:00 GMT |
Thirty Day Challenge: Free Web 2.0 Training |
The Thirty Day Challenge might not seem immediately applicable to booksellers. Web 2.0 is here to stay, however, and learning about the various Web 2.0 tools is important when you use the intern...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:53:00 GMT |
Harry Potter Bookseller Alert! (Printing Errors) |
Defying conventional wisdom that books with printing errors do not command premium prices as do, for example, coins and stamps, booksellers take note that numerous Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:55:00 GMT |
If you build a website will they come? |
I am an online bookseller who once had a website and shut it down several months later. Therefore, I highly recommend Kent Johnson's BookThink series entitled Building a Website for Successful B...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:13:00 GMT |
Booksellers: Get on the Death Watch List Today |
Apropos our recent Gold Edition series, "Bookselling on the Cutting Edge" - if you're going to use breaking news as a tool for identifying potential high spots, it's important to keep abreast of recen...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:42:00 GMT |
Whats the Best Selling Hardback Book in US Publishing History? |
Some Harry Potter tale? Not on your life. It's Pastor Rick Warren's take on the divine purpose of life - The Purpose Driven Life. 30 million copies sold since it first appeared in 2002, and this doesn...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:30:00 GMT |
Were You Too Late for Fred Thompson's Book Too? |
Shame on you!Plenty of copies of Fred Thompson's At That Point in Time: The Inside Story of the Senate Watergate Committee were available for $10 to $30 not too many months ago; today, if you can find...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:01:00 GMT |
