Booksellers Blog

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 [...]

The following is a guest post by Drew Goodman. I read Drew’s blog post about the book What Would Google Do?, and I was interested in his bookseller’s perspective.  Drew graciously agreed to expand on his post for us here.  Drew Goodman manages the General Books Department for the University Campus Store at the University [...]

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 [...]