Booksellers Blog

In an earlier post, I wrote about the need to determine your goals before deciding on the tools to use to attain those goals.  When you read a newspaper article trumpeting that there are now 150 million members on Facebook, it’s easy to think “oh, my store has to be on Facebook!”  But that may [...]

I read a post this morning that floored me.  It was written by someone who is not in the book world, and only a small portion is about books. But it crystallizes one of the biggest problems facing independent bookstores right now. Sally McKenzie, a retail and e-commerce consultant, was browsing for books at Powell’s [...]