Why Buy Used Books?
“All in all, it looks like the used book market creates a lot more value than it destroys” - Professor Hal Varian, University of California, Berkeley “Reading Between the Lines in Used Books Sales.”...
View ArticleBooksellers for the Post Office
You’ve heard all the gibberish regarding the demise of the post office and the need to privatize the service but guess what? In some areas they are doing better than they ever have! Yes, of course,...
View ArticleBook Hatchery: What I learned about books on my visit to a salmon hatchery
I recently had the pleasure to accompany my daughter and her 3rd/4th grade class on a three night camping trip to the Mt. Baker wilderness in Washington State. The goal of the trip was to teach the...
View ArticleBook Fair with Grunge and more…
This weekend the annual Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair takes center stage. Nearly 100 booksellers from far and wide converge on the Seattle Center to showcase their stuff. Don’t let the name antiquarian...
View Article“If every bookshop tells a story…”
Loving this ad placed by Unity Books in New Zealand in the literary magazine Sport 13 in the Spring of 1994. Published before e-commerce would forever change the business of bookselling, the ad reeks...
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