Is this simply the latest manifestation of the race to the bottom mentality that is polluting much of the bookselling world or will it prove to be a new way to sell books?At the newly opened Market Fresh Books in Evanston, Illinois all books and related products are sold by the pound! Yes, by the pound.Here's how it works:Books cost $3.99 a poundBooks on tape $10.99 a poundAudio CD's are $24.99 per poundThe store stocks lightly used best sellers and other popular current titles. Nothing old, nothing rare, nothing antiquarian. It also boasts a children's room, a room dedicated to...
Picturing the London Book Trade
Bernard Shapero"Bookdealing must be amongst the most wonderfully eccentricprofessions on Earth" - Mike TsangPhotographer Mike Tsang had recently returned to London from a demanding project in the Sudan when he popped in to visit his friend who was then manager of the Biblion bookshop in London. By the time he left the seeds for "The London Book Trade" project were planted. Tsang would go around town photographing booksellers in their domain with the end result being an exhibition at Biblion. When all was said and done Tsang had photographed most of the booksellers of note in London and the result...
Is the E-Reader Price War Next?
The way the current online price war between Wal-Mart, Amazon, Sears and Target is shaping up there is a chance one of them might be paying me to read one of their featured books by Christmas.It started as a shot off the bow by Wal-Mart to wake up the populace to their online life. Pre-order the top upcoming releases for $10 and free shipping but before you could click the buy button Amazon joined the party and matched the deal. Soon after Target joined the fray. Now less than a week later the price sits at $8.98 at Walmart, $8.99...
All Eyes on the Elliott Bay Book Company
Rumor has it that Seattle's venerable Elliott Bay Book Company is on the move. Paul Constant, the book editor at the Stranger and a former Elliott Bay employee, his hearing murmurs on Capitol Hill that Elliott Bay has found a new home and will be leaving Pioneer Square. Elliot Bay has been in Pioneer Square since its inception in 1973 and has been an upper-tier independent bookseller on the national level for almost as long.Though still in the rumor stage, the story broke at 4pm on Friday, the mere possibility is seismic. Pioneer Square, the City of Seattle, and the...
“How To Make $100,000 or More Each Year As a Used, Rare and Out of Print Book Dealer!”
“The Easiest Business That Really Makes Money on the Internet!”Veteran rare and out of print book dealers who have struggled for decades trying to make their monthly nut, acquire new stock, sell books and earn a profit will be dumbfounded to learn that we’ve been doing it all wrong yet deeply thankful that salvation is at hand.But, aside from an annual income that 95% of rare, used and out of print book dealers can only dream about, a civilian may ask: What are the big advantages to entering this exciting, fast-paced and glamorous trade that the glitterati would just die...