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Author : Kate Whouley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781879556188
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (561 download)
Download or read book Manual on Bookselling written by Kate Whouley and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laura J. Miller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226525929
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Reluctant Capitalists written by Laura J. Miller and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past half-century, bookselling, like many retail industries, has evolved from an arena dominated by independent bookstores to one in which chain stores have significant market share. And as in other areas of retail, this transformation has often been a less-than-smooth process. This has been especially pronounced in bookselling, argues Laura J. Miller, because more than most other consumer goods, books are the focus of passionate debate. What drives that debate? And why do so many people believe that bookselling should be immune to questions of profit? In Reluctant Capitalists, Miller looks at a century of book retailing, demonstrating that the independent/chain dynamic is not entirely new. It began one hundred years ago when department stores began selling books, continued through the 1960s with the emergence of national chain stores, and exploded with the formation of “superstores” in the 1990s. The advent of the Internet has further spurred tremendous changes in how booksellers approach their business. All of these changes have met resistance from book professionals and readers who believe that the book business should somehow be “above” market forces and instead embrace more noble priorities. Miller uses interviews with bookstore customers and members of the book industry to explain why books evoke such distinct and heated reactions. She reveals why customers have such fierce loyalty to certain bookstores and why they identify so strongly with different types of books. In the process, she also teases out the meanings of retailing and consumption in American culture at large, underscoring her point that any type of consumer behavior is inevitably political, with consequences for communities as well as commercial institutions.
Author : Grace Jasmine
Publisher : Calgary : FabJob
ISBN 13 : 9781894638760
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (387 download)
Download or read book FabJob Guide to Become a Bookstore Owner written by Grace Jasmine and published by Calgary : FabJob. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this FabJob guide you will discover: information about different types of bookstores you can open, with information about how to buy an existing bookstore or open a new bookstore; how to create a business plan and get financing; how to design your bookstore to maximize sales; where to get books and other products for your store plus how to set your prices; [and] essential advice for managing your store, plus how to market your bookstore and attract customers."--Back cover.
Author : Oliver Darkshire
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1324092084
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller written by Oliver Darkshire and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instant National Bestseller Shortlisted for the 2023 Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award "Witty, literary and very funny." —Minneapolis Star Tribune Welcome to Sotheran’s, one of the oldest bookshops in the world, with its weird and wonderful clientele, suspicious cupboards, unlabeled keys, poisoned books, and some things that aren’t even books, presided over by one deeply eccentric apprentice. Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd (est. 1761) to apply for a job. Allured by the smell of old books and the temptation of a management-approved afternoon nap, Darkshire was soon unteetering stacks of first editions and placating the store’s resident ghost (the late Mr. Sotheran, hit by a tram). A novice in this ancient, potentially haunted establishment, Darkshire describes Sotheran’s brushes with history (Dickens, the Titanic), its joyous disorganization, and the unspoken rules of its gleefully old-fashioned staff, whose mere glance may cause the computer to burst into flames. As Darkshire gains confidence and experience, he shares trivia about ancient editions and explores the strange space that books occupy in our lives—where old books often have strong sentimental value, but rarely a commercial one. By turns unhinged and earnest, Once Upon a Tome is the colorful story of life in one of the world’s oldest bookshops and a love letter to the benign, unruly world of antiquarian bookselling, where to be uncommon or strange is the best possible compliment.
Author : William Roberts
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Earlier History of English Bookselling written by William Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bessie Graham
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Bookman's Manual written by Bessie Graham and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Bookseller and Stationer written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2036 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 2036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeff Deutsch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691229651
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book In Praise of Good Bookstores written by Jeff Deutsch and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a devoted reader and lifelong bookseller, an eloquent and charming reflection on the singular importance of bookstores Do we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good one? In this beautifully written book, Jeff Deutsch—the former director of Chicago’s Seminary Co-op Bookstores, one of the finest bookstores in the world—pays loving tribute to one of our most important and endangered civic institutions. He considers how qualities like space, time, abundance, and community find expression in a good bookstore. Along the way, he also predicts—perhaps audaciously—a future in which the bookstore not only endures, but realizes its highest aspirations. In exploring why good bookstores matter, Deutsch draws on his lifelong experience as a bookseller, but also his upbringing as an Orthodox Jew. This spiritual and cultural heritage instilled in him a reverence for reading, not as a means to a living, but as an essential part of a meaningful life. Central among Deutsch’s arguments for the necessity of bookstores is the incalculable value of browsing—since, when we are deep in the act of looking at the shelves, we move through space as though we are inside the mind itself, immersed in self-reflection. In the age of one-click shopping, this is no ordinary defense of bookstores, but rather an urgent account of why they are essential places of discovery, refuge, and fulfillment that enrich the communities that are lucky enough to have them.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Bookseller, Newsdealer and Stationer written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bessie Graham
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Bookman's Manual written by Bessie Graham and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David D. Hall
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469628961
Total Pages : 4704 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book A History of the Book in America, 5-volume Omnibus E-book written by David D. Hall and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 4704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The five volumes in A History of the Book in America offer a sweeping chronicle of our country's print production and culture from colonial times to the end of the twentieth century. This interdisciplinary, collaborative work of scholarship examines the book trades as they have developed and spread throughout the United States; provides a history of U.S. literary cultures; investigates the practice of reading and, more broadly, the uses of literacy; and links literary culture with larger themes in American history. Now available for the first time, this complete Omnibus ebook contains all 5 volumes of this landmark work. Volume 1 The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World Edited by Hugh Amory and David D. Hall 664 pp., 51 illus. Volume 2 An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840 Edited by Robert A. Gross and Mary Kelley 712 pp., 66 illus. Volume 3 The Industrial Book, 1840-1880 Edited by Scott E. Casper, Jeffrey D. Groves, Stephen W. Nissenbaum, and Michael Winship 560 pp., 43 illus. Volume 4 Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880-1940 Edited by Carl F. Kaestle and Janice A. Radway 688 pp., 74 illus. Volume 5 The Enduring Book: Print Culture in Postwar America Edited by David Paul Nord, Joan Shelley Rubin, and Michael Schudson 632 pp., 95 illus.
Author : Travis McDade
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190239719
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Thieves of Book Row written by Travis McDade and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Thieves of Book Row, Travis McDade tells the gripping tale of the worst book-theft ring in American history, and the intrepid detective who brought it down. Both a fast-paced, true-life thriller, Thieves of Book Row provides a fascinating look at the history of crime and literary culture.
Author : Bureau of Vocational Information (New York, N.Y.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book News-bulletin of the Bureau of Vocational Information written by Bureau of Vocational Information (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
