In my bookshop I apply the normal maxim of looking books up on the internet and making sure the ones I am selling are cheaper than you can buy them online and with cookery books I am – have to be – very selective about which ones I stock, the pictures of the cookery books on the shelves in my bookshop today show you what happens.
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Friday 24 January 2014
Secondhand cookery books, the secondhand bookshop and the internet.
In my bookshop I apply the normal maxim of looking books up on the internet and making sure the ones I am selling are cheaper than you can buy them online and with cookery books I am – have to be – very selective about which ones I stock, the pictures of the cookery books on the shelves in my bookshop today show you what happens.
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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.
I always really enjoy reading what you have to say about your business.
ReplyDeleteI think cos I run a business too and because I buy books.
I often wonder how you make a living as the price of books has plummeted through my lifetime and they are so cheap now - readers are almost paid to read them!
Then I can can compare again to the world of plumbing where there are people who seem to be working for rates that are so low the only way we could complete is to ofer to do the work for free!
I guess you and I are really making our livings from focusing on that niche group of people who want that special thing we can deliver better than our competition.
I have considered selling my unwanted books over the www but as you have said before - it just ain't worth it, once postage is included.
So I usually just give them away - some to you!
Anyway, always interesting to read about your shop and your business.
I am wanting to buy some classic children/YA fiction for my family or am I reliving my childhood? So I will perhaps pop in this week.