Anyone use a blog for their bookstore?

I'm looking for advice and tips on design, content, hosting, etc. Our e-newsletter went gangbusters this year and we're looking to branch out.

Also, anyone using Twitter for the bookstore?

Thanks in advance!

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I don't know if anyone has ever been to this website, but they have 5 pages of bookstore tagged posts. It seemed apropos to post the link in this community...

Enjoy!

As my parents worked in a bookstore before I was even born (a store they later owned), I have been around the book trade all my life. That's why I can't believe I've never read this amusing 1936 essay by George Orwell: Bookshop Memories. Read it. You'll enjoy it.


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Hi there! I work at O'Gara and Wilson, a crazy used and antiquarian bookstore on Chicago's 57th Street, and I'm here to tell you that we now have a store blog. (LiveJournal feed: ogarawilson.) We will certainly post about interesting items around the shop; I'll also get the owner to post some stories from his decades in the bookselling business, and I myself ( Read more... )

I was just thinking how lucky I am not to be going through the delightful corporate rollercoaster that some of our sistren and brethren in the UK are experiencing, and how much it must suck even more not to be able to rant about it here amongst collegues due to the prying eyes of corporate sum'biches. (My boss was a union boss before starting the ( Read more... )

It is mentioned in the community info, but I just want to remind you all NOT to mention the name of your shop or chain in any post here. Please mung it so we do not show up on Google. People have had problems with management based on things they have said here, so please do not leave a breadcrumb trail for The Man. Let us all take care of each ( Read more... )

I've been charged with setting up  a blog for our store. Has anyone done this before? Any tips on what worked and what didn't?
I'm kinda jumping in the deep end here...I barely use my LJ properly. :)

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