Booksellers Blog

I’ve been thrilled to see quite a few new bookstore blogs spring up over the last few months. Congratulations to all of you who’ve taken the plunge. I’ve tried to add everybody to the list of independent bookseller blogs on the side of Booksellers Blog, but if I’ve missed you, please let me know. You [...]

I’ve been very excited to hear from a few booksellers that they have recently started blogs. Because I’m not sure if they are ready for public dissemination yet, I won’t post the links here now — but if you are a bookseller who has recently started a blog, and you want some visitors, please let [...]

Have you watched the Gary Vaynerchuk BEA video yet? If not, please do. Really. It’s not only motivating, Gary brings up some controversial topics that I would love to see debated and discussed among booksellers. If those things are being talked about somewhere, would you please let me know where? If you have watched the [...]

Today’s guest post is by Patrick Brown.  Patrick is the webmaster and blogger for Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena, CA.  Before joining the staff at Vroman’s, he worked at Book Soup in West Hollywood, and briefly at Skylight Books in Los Feliz.  He has written book reviews for Publishers Weekly and was a regular contributor to [...]

Of course, it’s the million dollar question: will blogging sell books? As expected, there’s no easy answer. If you feature a particular book on your blog, you may sell a few copies. Or you may not. Does your e-newsletter generate sales of specific books that you feature? Do you track it? I would suggest that [...]

There aren’t really any “rules” about how to write a blog post. However, I think it’s important to keep in mind that your audience is not sitting down for a leisurely hour with a magazine. Most blogs are consumed in short bursts of time, in less than ideal reading conditions, and possibly with multiple distractions [...]

So remember when I said that I’d share with you what I am learning? Well, I’ve just learned that it is very important to view a website in multiple browsers. Actually, I’ve known this, but have neglected to do it. As a result, I learned this morning that this blog looks terrible in Internet Explorer. [...]