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Bookshop.org: An Online Alternative to Amazon

September 8, 2021 //  by Janet Grant//  7 Comments

Bookshop.org’s founder and CEO, Andy Hunter, could be viewed as prescient. The bookstore site launched in January 2020, just before COVID forced physical stores to lock their doors. Before Amazon downgraded the priority of shipping books and upped the priority …

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How Book Buyers Decide What to Stock

March 24, 2021 //  by Janet Grant//  13 Comments

I find it helpful to read articles written for book buyers. Gaining insight into how they think about what to stock in their stores helps me to understand the supply chain. The more I understand what stores are choosing to …

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How Readers Discover Books

March 3, 2021 //  by Janet Grant//  8 Comments

One of the biggest challenges for an author, a publisher AND readers consists of the increasing difficulty of matching a wannabe reader with the type of book he or she is looking to buy. A new survey recently was conducted …

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The Lost Art of Hand Selling

June 14, 2020 //  by Wendy Lawton//  13 Comments

At a recent staff meeting, Janet Grant filled us in on a Bookspan/Publisher’s Marketplace webinar she attended a week or so ago. She took great notes on many topics but one point stood out to me. The presenter observed that …

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Coronavirus and Publishing Update

April 1, 2020 //  by Janet Grant//  19 Comments

In conversations with our agency’s clients these past couple of weeks, each one has asked me how the coronavirus affects publishing. We, of course, don’t know the long-term affect.  But I thought I’d update you all on what’s happened so …

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The Demise of Book Collecting?

January 23, 2019 //  by Wendy Lawton//  37 Comments

By Wendy Lawton

Books as disposables. Nothing could be sadder.

Did you catch the the suggestion regarding books reportedly made by Marie Kondo, the organizing guru who hosts the Netflix show, Tidying Up? I read that she suggested that, ideally, …

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What Does a Book Sales Rep Really Do?

March 28, 2018 //  by Janet Grant//  20 Comments

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

Most publishers maintain a sales team (or hire a team other publishers are using as well), with each member responsible for calling on his or her accounts. “Calling on” can mean making phone calls or physically …

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Publishing’s Greatest Challenge Might Surprise You

December 3, 2017 //  by Janet Grant//  47 Comments

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

In the October 2 issue of Publishers Weekly, the publication revealed the results of its annual salary and jobs survey. One of the questions the 442 respondents answered was, What is the #1 issue facing the …

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Should a Bookstore Censor Books?

July 23, 2017 //  by Janet Grant//  31 Comments

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

Recently I read an article in Publishers Weekly about a panel held at BookExpo that discussed how a bookstore, especially an independent store, should respond to books that might offend their political or moral principles.

This …

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Reality Check: Author Tours

July 25, 2016 //  by Wendy Lawton//  15 Comments

Blogger: Wendy Lawton

I’m packing my bags once again to accompany Lauraine Snelling on her Faith Words Book Tour for the launch of The Second Half.  I wrote the first part of this blog last year after Lauraine’s tour. I …

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