Update Announcements by Craig Stark #59, 9 January 2006

BookThink's book repair expert Gail Altman returns today with a look at mold and mildew. This can be a bookseller's nightmare, and, as is true with so many other maladies, prevention is much easier to accomplish than a cure. Gail discusses both in detail.

Issue #23 of the Gold Edition was delivered Tuesday morning, January 3. As always, email me at editor@bookthink.com if yours didn't arrive. Subscribers who missed the renewal deadline can still renew without interruption until February 6 - that is, we'll start you with issue #23 (Part I of a two-part series on full-time bookselling). Still not a subscriber? Historically, January is one of the strongest months for many booksellers - and my strongest period. The time to get things moving is now. Subscribe here.

Finally, I received several interesting responses to last week's article on the principles of bookselling. Two of them follow.