(just joined - hi everyone ( Read more... )

I work for a large (but independant, vive la resistance!) bookstore up here in Canada ( Read more... )

Hello, I'm Ryann, 22y/o student, and part-time book wench at an independent (squee!) bookseller ( Read more... )

I just started my stint at an independent used/antiquarian bookstore in VT as the "Manager of Online Sales". It's not as glorious as it sounds because I'm the only one doing it :-p It definitely requires a lot of heavy lifting, packing, and the usage of sharp things. My office isn't even in the store, it's behind the restaurant next door in ( Read more... )

Been up since 4am - had resigned myself to the fact that harry would be a big fat non event for my poor little bookshop.... but at 4am i woke up with a start determined to come up with a way of making the world a better place!!! Or a least selling a few copies of this damn book ( Read more... )

Howdy. I'm brand-spanking new to this group. I am currently working at my fourth independent bookstore. I wish I could do it full-time and forever. Alas, it is a labor of love, not of monetary rewards ( Read more... )

I used to work in a used book store. What precisely that entails I don't have time to get into at this point, but I will detail this: I do buy used, and occasionally rare, or antiquarian books for the store. As a buyer of used books, here is a short list of things I wish the idiots that try to sell me their crap knew. If you are considering selling ( Read more... )

Hi, I work at Hoity-toity Independant Books (East Coast). I have been there over 10 years and intend to stay as long as they survive. I am glad I found this place to vent. I was trying to create a similar thing at Yahoo groups called BookySpecial(please join), but no one ever writes. I love books and bookselling, but customers and management and ( Read more... )

Just thought that I'd take a few seconds and quickly introduce myself to anyone out there. I'm new to this community. I've run a used and rare shop (with select new tites) for six and a half years, been selling on-line for two (though I have kept the shop open) and have recently branched out into book publishing. Has anyone else made this leap ( Read more... )

cheesy question and perhaps too centralized but i have the ultimate interview in Bookstoreland early next week.. Powell's City of Books! So I want to cheat in any way posssible in order to make sure I ace my interview. Does anyone have any experience as to what their hiring questions are like? I hear it's gonna be a coupla people firing questions ( Read more... )