Booksellers Blog

Don’t think of this as another twitter post, think of it as a continuation of yesterday’s post. Becky McCray at The Small Biz Survival blog has an important post today: Is Twitter worth it for small town businesses? She asks (and then answers) the tough questions that I know you have been asking: But what [...]

I know, you’re tired of twitter. As much as I love it, I am also tired of incessant press and portrayal of twitter as the service that will save the world. But there’s no denying twitter’s power as a tool for connecting. Josh Christie, a bookseller at Sherman’s Books in Freeport, Maine, has a great [...]

Everybody’s talking about Twitter. In the past month or so, I’ve seen several booksellers and publishing people sign on to twitter to try it out. And I think many are engaging with new people, learning a lot, and having fun. Here’s the thing: once you follow more than 30 people, the “standard” way of using [...]

It seems that you just can’t get away from Twitter these days. It’s referenced in CNN news reports, the New York Times writes Sunday Magazine pieces and  feature articles about it, and it has started to permeate the minds of booksellers as well. Stephanie Anderson (@Bookavore) wrote an excellent introduction to twitter for Shelf-Awareness in [...]

I’m sure you’ve heard the buzz about Twitter.  It’s the new “shiny object” in the social media space. And you may have noticed that I did not list Twitter as one of the “tools” in the online marketing “toolbox” in my earlier post. In fact, I deliberately stayed away from any mention of Twitter–because while [...]

Not for New England only Have you heard about Kids ♥ Authors Day? On February 14th, 2009, New England bookstores will be hosting local childrens book authors and illustrators to meet kids and sign books. It’s a cool idea, but even more important for our purposes in how this event came about. It began last [...]

Relationships, and content — that’s how. You hear the term “Social Media” a lot these days. To most people, that’s a vague term that has something to do with the internet and things called MySpace or Facebook. Some people think it’s a fad, or irrelevant to anyone over the age of 20. This week provided [...]