How to Start & Manage a Used Bookstore Business

Rating:
Summary: Awful, just plain awful!
Review: This book should be banned! Just kidding but if you are sincere in needing information on starting and managing a bookstore this is not the best source. Any information concerning the book business is wanting, no good information on securing inventory, no good information on mark-ups, how long you should retain inventory, no good information on using a cash register versus a point of sale system, no good information on the day to day operations. If your serious about the book business DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK, rather check out the American Booksellers Associations website and utilize there resources. If you just want to sell on the internet there are other fine books on amazon like "Selling Used Books Online" that contain a lot of relevant information.

Rating:
Summary: Awful, just plain awful!
Review: This book should be banned! Just kidding but if you are sincere in needing information on starting and managing a bookstore this is not the best source. Any information concerning the book business is wanting, no good information on securing inventory, no good information on mark-ups, how long you should retain inventory, no good information on using a cash register versus a point of sale system, no good information on the day to day operations. If your serious about the book business DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK, rather check out the American Booksellers Associations website and utilize there resources. If you just want to sell on the internet there are other fine books on amazon like "Selling Used Books Online" that contain a lot of relevant information.

Rating:
Summary: The Worst Book I Have Ever Read
Review: What we have here is a book thrown together by two "authors" (and I use that term with appalling generosity) who have no used bookstore experience themselves yet pretend that they do by presenting a goulash of amateurish filler, fluff and vamping as "expert" advice. They interview NO used bookstore owners. (They do, however, present two "pretend" quotes from, ahem, "anonymous" bookstore owners about running---even more stupidity here--a NEW book bookstore.)They do not, in fact, go into specifics of the used bookstore business other than on one (one!)and a quarter pages, which consist of made-up, vague generalities that will be of no help to anyone with an IQ above 40. I could go into a lot more detail about how profoundly amateurish and useless this book is and how Amazon.com tarnishes its credibility by agreeing to carry it, but this team of authors (who put out a giant line of cookie-cutter business books like this, each, I'm certain, with the same level of incompetence)utterly refused to answer my letter of complaint or to refund my money. One last thing. I'm an avid life-long reader, and I own some 3,000 books. I Have NEVER asked for a refund on any of them. This is, by far, THE WORST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ.

Rating:
Summary: The Worst Book I Have Ever Read
Review: What we have here is a book thrown together by two "authors" (and I use that term with appalling generosity) who have no used bookstore experience themselves yet pretend that they do by presenting a goulash of amateurish filler, fluff and vamping as "expert" advice. They interview NO used bookstore owners. (They do, however, present two "pretend" quotes from, ahem, "anonymous" bookstore owners about running---even more stupidity here--a NEW book bookstore.)They do not, in fact, go into specifics of the used bookstore business other than on one (one!)and a quarter pages, which consist of made-up, vague generalities that will be of no help to anyone with an IQ above 40. I could go into a lot more detail about how profoundly amateurish and useless this book is and how Amazon.com tarnishes its credibility by agreeing to carry it, but this team of authors (who put out a giant line of cookie-cutter business books like this, each, I'm certain, with the same level of incompetence)utterly refused to answer my letter of complaint or to refund my money. One last thing. I'm an avid life-long reader, and I own some 3,000 books. I Have NEVER asked for a refund on any of them. This is, by far, THE WORST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ.

Rating:
Summary: The Worst Book I Have Ever Read
Review: What we have here is a book thrown together by two"authors" (and I use that term with appalling generosity)who have no used bookstore experience themselves yet pretend that theydo by presenting a goulash of amateurish filler, fluff and vamping as "expert" advice. They interview NO used bookstore owners. (They do, however, present two "pretend" quotes from, ahem, "anonymous" bookstore owners about running---even more stupidity here--a NEW book bookstore.)They do not, in fact, go into specifics of the used bookstore business other than on one (one!)and a quarter pages, which consist of made-up, vague generalities that will be of no help to anyone. One last thing. I'm an avid life-long reader, and I own some 3,000 books. This is, by far, THE WORST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ.