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BookThink is an industry-leading resource provider for
online and open shop book dealers, book collectors,
and serious readers. Resources include the
BookThinker, a free twice monthly newsletter covering a wide
range of book-related topics; BookThink's Gold Edition, a monthly paid-subscription newsletter
supplying profit-generating insider information to
booksellers; BookThink's 50/50, a bimonthly market
report targeting high-profit, in-demand books that are
likely to surface on scouting trips; a moderated book
forum; an extensive library of active and pertinent
book-related links; book reviews; interviews with
authors and other notables; and intensive tutorials on
practical book repair, grading, terminology, buying
for resale, selling books online and off, building a
personal book collection, and more
The BookThinker Newsletter
ISSN 1547-9501
#36, 7 February 2005
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BookThink Update
14 February 2005>>>
Update Announcements
ScoutPal
A Guide for New Users
Like any other tool, ScoutPal is only as good as its user. If you know what you're doing, it can be a powerful tool for buying inventory; if not, much less so, but BookThink's New User's Guide to ScoutPal will bring you up to speed in no time. Articles in this guide include: How Not to Use ScoutPal, Practice Makes Perfect, Formatting Recommendations, Interpreting Results, Speed Tips, Miscellaneous Tips, Keeping a Low Profile, and more.
Click here to begin.
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Plotting Your Future in Bookselling
How to Evaluate Alternate Venues
Alternate venues. Have you been looking for one? Aren't we all. In today's feature, "Plotting Your Future in Bookselling," we take a close look at this topic and suggest a powerful tool for evaluating potential venues in advance of taking the plunge. Consistent use of it should help you to avoid investing valuable time on venues that hold small or no promise of paying off for you.
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Children's Book Awards
Remarks and Lists
Bookseller Catherine Huang makes her first appearance at BookThink. Catherine has put together some especially useful lists of award winning children's books - this may be the most complete set of these lists anywhere - and skillfully demonstrates how these can be used to mine our sought-after flashpoints.
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Bible Mania
Issue #12 of the Gold Edition will be delivered Monday evening, February 7.
This time the topic is Bibles - how you can profit from this all-time bestseller.
If you've never sold a Bible, you might be surprised at what they can do for your bottom
line, not to mention how very, very often the higher-dollar examples surface at sales.
Click to subscribe.
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Previous BookThinker Update -
BookThink Update
31 January 2005>>>
Update Announcements
Collecting Science Fiction
Thoughts on the Past, Plans for the Future
New things, it seems, are always in process at BookThink, and the
coming year should bring many more. BookThink's
Science Fiction editor Timothy Doyle details a few of these in his column today,
most notably the soon-to-be-introduced Science Fiction page.
This will be a valuable resource for SF/Fantasy/Horror booksellers
and collectors alike, and it's our intention to grow it into
something very special. Click here for
more.
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50/50 Issue #1
Now Available
Issue #1 of 50/50, BookThink’s new market report, is
now available for purchase. Published every other
month, 50/50 lists and annotates in detail 50 books
that typically sell for $50 and up online and - here's
the best part - includes only those books that surface
with some regularity at sales and other viable venues
for purchasing inventory. In other words, this is
information you can actually use and profit from
often. Subscriptions are also available at the annual
rate of $20. Payments may be made instantly or by
mail. For details, click here.
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BookThink's Gold Edition
Common Magazines, Uncommon Profits
Part II: Flashpoints
Flashpoints, flashpoints, flashpoints. Part II of
BookThink’s series on profiting from common magazines
is packed with them. These are the specifics you’ll
need to cash in on this often neglected but
consistently rewarding market. Lists of collectible
topics, authors, illustrators, photographers,
celebrities, sports figures, historical events,
advertisers and more appear in this issue.
Purchase this issue
today or subscribe to BookThink's Gold Edition for
monthly insider information for booksellers. Click
here for details.
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