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Buying is a hard thing for bookstores to do effectively, and that becomes an increasingly important reality for publishers - The Shatzkin Files More
Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago by Ernest Duran | permalink
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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 …
For further reading: http://www.idealog.com/blog/buying-is-a-hard-thing-for-bookstores-to-do-effectively-and-that-becomes-an-increasingly-important-reality-for-publishers/ ^[1]

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How to Buy Books for Opening a Bookstore | eHow More
Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago by uta | permalink
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Resources for finding wholesale distributors and used book sales when opening a bookstore with examples.

For further reading: http://www.ehow.com/how_5384455_buy-books-opening-bookstore.html ^[2]

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The Bookstore Brain - The New Yorker More
Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago by marsha oglesby | permalink
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Bookstores are in essence personal libraries. In this way, they are macrocosms of the books they contain—there is life inside them.
For further reading: http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-bookstore-brain ^[3]

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Don’t Support Your Local Bookseller. Buy Books on Amazon Instead. More
Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago by Pats Bard | permalink
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Amazon just did a boneheaded thing, and it deserves all the scorn you want to heap on it. Last week, the company offered people cash in exchange for going into retail stores and scanning items using the company’s Price Check smartphone app. If you scanned a product and then purchased...
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For further reading: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/12/independent_bookstores_vs_amazon_buying_books_online_is_better_for_authors_better_for_the_economy_and_better_for_you_.html ^[4]