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The BookThinker Newsletter
ISSN 1547-9501

#28, 8 October 2004

Update Announcements Important announcements for BookThink's Gold Edition subscribers.

Building a Bookselling Reference Library Part III: Price Guides and How to Use Them Today, in our continuing series on Building a Bookselling Reference Library, I'm going to look at price guides. This will be a different approach than you've perhaps seen before because I don't use my guides for pricing. I use them for mining flashpoints. There's a step-by-step method to it, and I'll explain it in today's Update.

From the Editor

ScoutPal, And the Dumbing Down of Bookselling? More Important Than Ever: Flashpoints Thinking about signing up for ScoutPal? BookThink's editor, Craig Stark, is a recent convert. He'll tell you why today and also give you much, much more to think about.

Photographing Books Effective Photos for Online Bookselling Our new BookTopics series continues today with book photography. Photographs can make a huge difference in your sales, and if you haven't upgraded your photographic techniques yet, what better time than the present?

BookThink's Gold Editions Golden Guides Big Profits in Little Packages If you’ve been passing up Golden Guides at sales, you might be interested to know that they’ve become very collectible in recent years. For a detailed analysis of this often ignored niche, a complete list of titles, and – most important of all – a list of the specific titles that will bring you the biggest profits, purchase this issue today or subscribe to BookThink's Gold Edition for monthly insider information for booksellers. Click here for complete information.

ScoutPal Update I've just crunched the numbers for my first month's buys in thrift shops using ScoutPal, and the results were surprisingly good. More details here.

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The Hugo Award A Universe of Flashpoints In our feature article today, Tim Doyle offers an interesting take on flashpoints - namely, using a list of Hugo Award winners (and nominees) as flashpoints. The potential profits are considerable.

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