The BookThinker Newsletter ISSN 1547-9501 #103, 10 September 2007

BookThink Update
17 September 2007>>>

Update Announcements

Selling on Amazon How to List and Sell Your Oddball Books on Amazon At Amazon, more often than not, pre-ISBN products now have multiple discrete catalog pages presenting copies of either the same book or books with slight, mostly inconsequential differences. When faced with this, which catalog page do you list your book on? BookThink’s Steve Weber answers this question and other difficult listing questions in today’s first article, “How to List and Sell Your Oddball Books on Amazon.”

Top 10 on eBay June 2007 BookThink's June Top 10 revealed both good and bad news. On the positive side, there were more international auctions with sellers from Poland, Canada, Australia, and Germany. NARUs were the negatives. They struck 5 of the top fiction and non-fiction winners, including the top sale in each category. Was it summer "fun" or the start of a trend?

Gold Edition #42 How To Specialize in Bookselling Part IV: Types of Specialties, Hypermoderns (2), Mystery and Detective Fiction Issue #42 of the Gold Edition - Part IV of the new series, How to Specialize in Bookselling, is now available for purchase. Purchase now.

From the Editor Important announcements for BookThinker readers.

Introducing the First Edition Column The Da Vinci Code and Other Matters I'm especially pleased to announce that longtime bookseller and author of the 2008 First Edition Price Guide Thomas Lee is launching a BookThink column. Each month Tom will showcase specific collectible titles, often those that present significant edition state identification difficulties, and include a detailed discussion that will clear the air (hopefully) once and for all and enable you to spot firsts with the best of them. Today, there will be some general discussion of first edition identification followed by a close look at a title all of us run into from time to time - Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code.

How To Start a Clicks-and-Bricks Used Bookstore Organizing Your Business Part III. Picking Your Business Structure Also, Jill Hendrix returns today with another installment in her series, "How to Start a Clicks-and-Bricks" used bookstore. This time she explains the options we have for choosing a business structure.

BookThink's Quarterly Market Report of Common, Profitable Books Issue #2 Issue #2 of BookThink's Quarterly Market Report of Common, Profitable Books is now available for purchase. Purchase or subscribe now.

Gold Edition #41 How To Specialize in Bookselling Part III: Types of Specialties, Hypermoderns (2), General Fiction Issue #41 of the Gold Edition - Part III of the new series, How to Specialize in Bookselling, is now available for purchase. Purchase now.

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BookThink Update
3 September 2007>>>

Update Announcements

The Empirical Bookman The Hunt: A Gentle Art Expressed ... Opposite ends of the spectrum are represented today. First, Empirical Bookman Jaime Frontero resumes his already popular series with an upscale how-to on where to buy books for resale. There are some nuts and bolts here but also some insight into the process. Read slowly. Read carefully. Mull.

The Adventures of a Clueless Bookseller The Total Package Keeping Jaime company is BookThink's "Clueless Bookseller," Brenna Hopkins. Brenna's topic is packaging books - well, not exactly; it's more a matter of contemplating the Zen of packaging books. Bet you didn't know there was such a thing. We think perhaps she's a good bit further along with this bookselling biz than we suspected.