Booksellers Blog

I haven’t yet gotten a copy of Ted Striphas‘ new book, THE LATE AGE OF PRINT (978-0-231-14814-6, Columbia University Press), though I would very much like to read it.  Striphas argues that printed material (books, magazines) are both at once dying and thriving. Scott Esposito at the always-excellent blog The Quarterly Conversation has an intriguing [...]

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 [...]

How much success is a result of being somewhere first? I’ve been thinking about this quite a bit in relation to bookselling.. Why did Amazon.com succeed? If you were watching in the early days (I was), you will remember that it was the first site where you could find book reviews from “real” people. There [...]