Tip - Buying is a hard thing for bookstores to do effectively, and that becomes an increasingly important reality for publishers - The Shatzkin Files

One of the most underappreciated realities of the book business is how hard it is for a retailer to manage an inventory of trade books. This is an existential problem for a bookstore. A bookstore’s inventory is its biggest investment. The performance of inventory — how many times it “turns” in a year and how …