Just discovered that Biblio.com offers the option to exclude booksellers you won't buy from for one particular search or in perpetuity (on the profile level). Just excluded the big junk/boilerplate description culprits and my search results were much more acceptable. There also appears to be a star/favorite option but haven't experimented with that yet. #bookselling #bookstodon

We had a lovely time at the NW WA Renfaire this past weekend. Many thanks to our neighbours (waves) and most especially the ren faire organizers and staff for their hard work. See you next year!
#bookselling #SFF #historicalfiction #lgbtq🌈

This is beyond ridiculous: the French govt demands the bouquinistes move "for security reasons" during the Paris Olympics https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/jul/29/paris-booksellers-angry-at-plans-to-hide-their-stalls-during-olympics

So they show off Paris by removing such an essentially Parisian form of bookselling? Je dit non!

#books #livres #Paris #bookselling

Not unexpected: a coalition of booksellers and book industry groups have filed a lawsuit to block Texas's new book rating law #WritingCommunity #BookBanning #Bookselling https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/92858-booksellers-industry-groups-file-suit-to-block-texas-book-rating-law.html

Anyone in the #bookselling world or #writing world on the other apps knows I’m all about lifting up other voices and works. It’s more than just part of my job, it gives me such joy to reach out to #authors and highlight what they’ve put their heart into.

I really want to do more for the #writingcommunity. I know I don’t have a lot of years under my belt, but if I offered #editing #services along side my #reviews , would people be interested?

If so, follow my site link to find me :)

Just read @rebeccaromney’s excellent piece on feminist practice in rare books & manuscripts bookselling & I hope you’ll read it too. She provides a how-to on feminist principles in action in the book trade & generatively shares the work of booksellers. #feminism #FeministBibliography #bibliography #bookselling #RareBooks

https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/criticism/vol64/iss3/13/

Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: 11 Books You Should Read This Summer https://jezebel.com/summer-reading-new-book-recommendations-what-to-read-1850540646 #Jezebel #hospitalityrecreation #latoyawatkinswatkins #thephantomtollbooth #patrickraddenkeefe #norabiettetimmons #rainsfordstauffer #emilyhenryesque #annalekasmiller #williamfaulkner #awrinkleintime #hannahmichell #susannaclarke #digitalmedia #worldwideweb #3dpublishing #laurabassett #jamieloftus #bookselling #caitlincruz #maggie

The problem with bookstores is the problem for bookstores - The Idea Logical Company

https://www.idealog.com/blog/the-problem-with-bookstores-is-the-problem-for-bookstores/ #publishing #bookselling

3. Traveling booksellers still had a legitimate role to play in the ecosystem though at least from the government's standpoint. In Estella case, while that bookseller was able to get the privilege for the city, and no one else was allowed to sell particular items except him, everywhere else in the surrounding "county" (merindad) things were to proceed as normal, which I understand to mean that anyone could sell them. So travelling booksellers were serving the rural parts of the merindad where a permanent bookseller might not have enough business to survive.
#BookHistory #Books #Bookselling #Navarre #Navarra

2. Permanent booksellers are *not* fans of traveling booksellers. Booksellers in Pamplona, Estella, and Tudela complained about "marchantes" and "buhoneros" coming to their cities to sell the same sorts of ephemeral works that the Hospital General was cranking out. And these "outsiders" were undercutting them. Estella bookseller managed to get privilege for selling works in the city; Tudela bookseller it's unclear if he got it, but he used the Estella bookseller's case to support his own.
#BookHistory #Books #Bookselling #Navarre #Navarra

#bookselling I spent close to 12 hours today making (counts) about 50 new listings on eBay. It's not efficient, but that's mainly because one does have to be careful and thorough describing used books.

Anyway, here's the occasional link to my store

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_dkr=1&iconV2Request=true&_blrs=recall_filtering&_ssn=cornersbumped&store_cat=0&store_name=cornersbumpedbooksandantiques&_oac=1&_sop=10

‘Like reading under the covers’: books flourish in blackout-hit Ukraine - a really positive story of survival, the importance of books and reading, and cultural survival and the Ukrainian language https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/29/like-reading-under-the-covers-books-flourish-in-blackout-hit-ukraine #books #reading #bookshops #Ukraine #Ukrainian #UkrainianLanguage #bookselling #culture

Art books and an art auction catalog shipping to new homes this morning.
#books #BookSelling #bookstodon #ArtBooks

“Amazon doesn’t care about books … a book is just another thing in a warehouse,” [James] Daunt says. “Whereas bookstores are places of discovery. They’re just really nice spaces.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/15/barnes-and-noble-bookstores-james-daunt #bookselling

This story, which is a perfectly New York story, is really well done. It brought up so many feelings and memories! #TheStrand #NYC #bookselling

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/04/12/selling-to-the-strand-a-conversation-with-larry-campbell/

Items shipping to new homes this morning.

#books #bookselling #bookstodon #novels #exhibitions #ArtBooks #humor

Items shipping to new homes this morning.

#books #bookselling #bookstodon #novels #exhibitions #ArtBooks #humor

Just discovered that Book Depository is closing later this month. Shocked! I’ve been a regular customer of theirs for some years. Sad to see them go. #Bookshops #Books #OnlineShopping #BookDepository #Bookselling

Books shipping to new homes this morning.

#books #BookSelling #bookstodon #Hawaii #Volcano #cinema #EugeneO'Neill #movies #art #ArtBook #Naples

From the Guardian archive: #Bookselling as the most over-romanticized job.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/06/booksellings-romantic-image-conceals-a-grimy-reality-bookshop-day