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Good news! Page one of our Resources area, "Buying Books," is now up and running, permanently installed on the Web site (http://www.bookologist.com/cab/pages/resources/buy), and accessible by clicking the "Resources" button on the left side of the home page. For reference, it also appears in today's newsletter. This is a deep, dense resource for both beginning and advanced booksellers looking for new sources of good books locally, regionally or online. Dozens of useful links are included, accompanied by instructions for use and tips for your book hunting expeditions. Careful investigation of this page could produce many new and productive sources of inventory.
Page two, "Researching Books," will appear next month. This resource will help you locate information vital to presenting your books for sale - edition points, publication data, author backgrounds, signatures, and so on. In the following months, six additional pages will be added: Pricing Books, Selling Books, Packaging Books, Shipping Books, Talking about Books, and Specialty Links. When completed, this area will be the best and most complete of its kind online or in print. The Specialty Links page alone will be a virtual gateway to a huge library of book-related information.
Yes, it's finally here - a starter list of flashpoints. This is a short list of examples with widely varying degrees of power; that is, it's not simply a list of power flashpoints but more representative of something you might put together yourself as you acquire more book buying experience. Also, we've spotlighted a single flashpoint - "Okinawa" - in the Bookologist's Market Niche of the Month. Readers unfamiliar with this mysterious island may find the discussion both interesting and profitable.
Finally, in Letters to the Editor, a reader proposes eliminating all advertising on the Bookologist and going to fee-based subscriptions. At present there are no plans to change the existing format, but since we've received several similar emails recently, it might be interesting to sound out other subscribers on this topic. Please feel free to voice your opinions, pro or con.
Craig Stark, Editor
Email: craig@bookologist.com
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