Tips for Professional Bookselling

The internet has allowed for unprecedented access to millions of potential book buyers. Readers and book collectors as well as long term, highly experienced professional booksellers and private individuals with a surfeit of books to dispose of have all benefited in ways from online book searching and ordering, helping booksellers and customers find each other with greater ease than ever before!

As with most any advance in technology, new challenges have come up. Booksellers have been presented with new technologies for uploading books and photos. Pricing strategies aren’t always the same as pre-internet days. Online customers often have different expectations when it comes to selecting a book and what they expect after the purchase is complete. Highly knowledgable veteran booksellers find themselves at times in direct competition with neophytes, while up and coming professional sellers struggle to earn the esteem and validation they deserve.

These articles cover a wide variety of topics, intended to help newly minted professional booksellers learn some of the tricks that the pros have perfected, and to help more experienced sellers make the most of the internet to expand their sales while not compromising the traditions of the trade.