and a place  blogging about bookselling on the net anybody twittering?

I am starting a blog about book finds


more later

bookblogery is a  word and a place

A used bookstore in California closing after 75 years sold their building for 2.8 million

When I started buying and selling books 1993 full time,I scouted for a few years before that
( I will have to ask wife exactly when ) the late 80's I think. I was told buy your shop ,property building etc.

Sorry to take the glamor out of ( the books) but it is a business. the starting ,running ,selling and passing of the used bookstores are business decisions. A few mass great inventories and become famous.

The Amazing Fact that a person can make a living at all buying and selling books. From scraps of old ancient paper, early printings of Americana, Art books ,fine bindings etc.etc.etc. to classic paperback reprints,a thriller whether the thrill is death, murder ,romance or a story about anything. To sell the numerous books of all sorts ( All Books) is very encouraging.

I have a very expensive print,I bought at a estate sale of a book seller on a bridge or walk way in I think Paris with a wooden box and a string of other bookseller with there wooden boxes ,the lids open selling their books in their small part of the book selling world . Are they still doing that,possibly yes ,but is that the book selling world. Is it a piece of history . Is the used book store now a piece of history . I think there will always a used book store, a book fair, a street or flea market vendor ,a internet used book seller as long as people read , collect or want printed paper that is glued ,sewn or stapled together .

I mourn not the passing of any type of book selling but remember there will be sellers of books in some venue well beyond my life.

How long ( is it already starting) will it be before someone crys when it is no longer possible for a person to pay for the mortgage by selling books out of his house with a garage or added room or a bedroom full of books.

I think of being a bookseller as being an doctor, an artist, or any profession that is determined by one person skills. Some build an large industry around their skill and some make a good living , while some fall by the wayside.

just ramblings better go to work
bookblogery is a word and and a place.

1 When i started selling i used "THE SITES,book selling" almost exclusively I have another ebay id started in 1998.

started another when incorporated whenever


Looking through papers i was getting ready to shred I found four orders all about middle of September -October 1998
I One from the river from my rep Alfred for
"Grading Techniques for Modern Design" 29.00
2
DATED September 10 ,from LINCOLN
Cross Creek Cookery 35.00
3.from Bibliofind "bee keeping" by c p dandant $12.00
4. from interloc The Protean Body by Don Lohnson 15.00

Do not have time research the books now ;but i thought someone might enjoy "what was happin almost 10 years ago
Bibliofind was bought by a holding company and bought by Amazon
Interloc is now Alibris
River is Amazon
Lincoln is ABE

2008 seems to be a" beeg "change also especially on ebay in the book category
bookblogery is word and a place

Ok This my take on grading books

since the internet is world wide( lots of peeps selling books) and has changed the nomenclature of selling books.
OLD out of date words :as good which wasn't ,fine by degrees plus minus almost nearly etc.  ONE universal guide of grading that of a defunct magazine is fading except in the religion of high end dealers and wantabes.
 Now stock market companies that sell widgets ie books and
early booksellers sites that have converted to stock venture capitol companies have instituted their nomenclature for mega sellers ease not customer aid.

solution
PICK up the book describe attributes and faults if you must use a grading system under describe for peace of mind knowing a book with a torn dust jacket is not really very good tho the book is very clean, tightly bound without text markings . the gift inscription on first page ( not first end Paper or whatever) tells the buyer what he is getting.

well you get the idea. I am still guilty of bookseller slang

It is a niche for the small seller good descriptions not clueless one word fits all.

oh remember f/vg

what the heck does that mean these days unless it a dealer selling to a dealer
this the world wide web not interloc or a regional book fair

interloc was the first viable computer based bookselling system ;dealer to dealer.