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The BookThinker Newsletter ISSN 1547-9501 #47, 11 July 2005

BookThink Update
18 July 2005>>>

Update Announcements

Taking Bookselling To the Top Part I: How to Succeed at Bookselling Without Really Trying Today's Update should give hope to any and all booksellers. It turns out, you see, that there are times when you can bungle your way through just about anything and succeed in spite of it. For details on how it's done, read Part I of a new BookThink series - "Taking Bookselling to the Top."

50/50 Issue #4
Now Available
Issue #4 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.

From the Editor Important announcements for BookThinker readers.

How To Build An Effective eBay Presentation Part III: Bibliographic Data, Condition Description and Terms of Sale Part III of our series on building an effective eBay presentation continues today with an examination of bibliographic data, condition description and terms of sale. Oh boy. Not exactly non-stop fun for booksellers, but it's important to pay attention to these details anyway because they contribute to the all important buyer trust factor.

BookThink BookTopics Building a Book Reference Library Contributing Editor Pamela Palmer is back with another BookThink Book Topics, this time gathering together a series of archived articles on building a bookseller's reference library. There's lots of reference stuff out there, some good, some bad, and everything in between. If you're not sure what's worth buying, we'll make some suggestions.

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BookThink Update
4 July 2005>>>

Update Announcements

Collecting Science Fiction Bookselling at Science Fiction Conventions Part I Thinking about upgrading your inventory? If so, part of this process will necessarily include culling lower quality stock, and we're here to help. In today's BookThinker Update, Science Fiction Editor Timothy Doyle begins a 2-part series on bookselling at Science Fiction Conventions. As he explains, cons are great venues for ridding yourself of underperforming books and making a few bucks while you're at it. Along the way, you can also make valuable contacts with authors and other sellers.

Gold Edition #17 How to Buy and Sell Foreign Books If you sell books written in only one language, you will effectively eliminate the majority of this planet's books from your pool of potential inventory. Unless you have - or can consistently acquire - more quality books in your native language than you know what to do with, therefore, it makes sense to at least consider foreign language books when they become available for sale. There are challenges, of course, with both buying and selling them, but to a significant extent these can be overcome. Learn how with the July issue of BookThink's new Gold Edition - "How to Buy and Sell Foreign Books." - available for purchase now.