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| When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes. Desiderius Erasmus (Patron saint of booksellers?) |
| World Book Market An association of B&M book stores from New Zealand & Australia to UK, Canada and the USA - and growing - is now associated with WeSellUsedBooks.com If you think you might be interested in joining, visit the World Book Market Forum |
| If you're looking for used books, you need to know where the Used Book Stores are... ... and That's Why We're Here... |
| A Note to... Book Lovers, Book Hunters, Book Collectors, & other Book Store Browsers ... This site is for you, equally. It won't work for any of us, unless it works for all of us. If you have any suggestions or criticisms, I really want to hear from you. Go to the "Contact Us" page and send in your thoughts. Later on we will have a public forum where you can share thoughts with others about books and bookstores as well as a Books Wanted page where you can post your wants and see if anyone has the book you're looking for. If you like what's happening here, please tell your friends, as well as any bookstores you visit, about us. If the site doesn't appeal to you, you would be doing me a favour by letting me know why. Please visit again soon, and watch us grow. Thanks, Bob Lewis |
| A Note to Book Store Owners ... As someone who loves books and is foolish enough to try to make a living selling used books, I thought that what was needed was a site that would list nearly all the used book stores - everywhere - and make the information available to anyone who has access to the web. Given that many owners of Used Bookstores don't have a lot of spare cash, it has to be free if I'm going to get most of us to list here. Charging book buyers to access the list seems counterproductive. Most of them aren't going to pay, so they aren't going to use the site. It's only going to work for the stores if lots of people use the list. To get lots of people to use the list, we need to have a lot of stores listed. So the site is free for everyone. Even if it grows a lot, it will cost me less per year than I spent on advertising last year. And if I do a good job, it should work better than the advertising I did last year. It might take up a lot of time, but I enjoy projects like this almost as much as dealing with books. Once I started thinking about it, other ideas came up. There are no courses on 'How to Run a Used Bookstore'. There is one book (out of print for several years now) which can be had for $40 or more - if you can find it. I have a copy, and while it is quite good, it is just one opinion, and some of it is quite dated. I've found store owners to be a friendly and helpful group. If we can get a large number of booksellers on this site, then a forum about books and bookstores would have a huge source of experience and practical knowledge to draw from. With the exception of the two people who already know everything, we could all gain from the exchange of information. There is a forum that has been in operation for about a year now, which I joined recently - only Used Bookstore Owners - and I have found it pleasant and informative. I have been talking to the person who started it, and he has agreed to act as the forum for this site. When you have listed your store, or verified your listing if I have entered your store, I will send you the details for joining the forum. Updates on this and other ideas will appear from time to time on the Store Owner's Page.(this page not at present active) And yes - I do have some ideas that might make me a few dollars without selling information about visitors or charging people to come here. Please look over the whole site. If you like it, sign up your store, and tell other store owners about it. We have over a thousand stores listed now - and still growing - there are lots more stores out there! We have no advertising budget. However, if all the stores will tell their customers about us, who else do we have to reach? Thanks, Bob Lewis |
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| last updated: July 01, 2008 |