Category: Book selling

Bellingham bookstore embraces new technology »

After complaining about bookstores yesterday, I found a story in the Bellingham, Wash., newspaper, Village Books making high-tech changes for customers.
First, the bookstore made the announcement through its newsletter, which a lot of bookstores have. But a good newsletter is way to maintain contact with customers. (“Good” being defined as more for the reader than [...]

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Why the book seller beats the bookstore »

I don’t enjoy bookstores very much.
Books are wonderful, and shopping for books is fun.
But the brick-and-mortar maze of volumes has “time sink” written all over it. I have spent hours in a bookstore with a paid gift card in hand and finally had to spend it on something, anything, just so that I wouldn’t have [...]

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