The Business of Bookselling with BrocheAroe

Intro: Welcome to the Business of Bookselling! In the first episode of this season, I went over opening a publisher account. And why do most stores open publisher accounts? To place direct orders, of course! So in this episode we’re going to go over ordering schedules and three things to do to make sure you’re […]

Intro: In this season, we’re going to explore working with publishers, why publisher-bookstore relationships are so important, and how they can become a mutually beneficial relationship, even as it is, by nature, a transactional one – they need us to sell their product – primarily books – and we need their primary product to sell […]

Intro: Welcome to the Business of Bookselling! In this podcast episode, I get to do my best impression of a dictionary and define some commonly used book industry terms that may or may not be familiar to you. If I don’t define something you’ve always wanted to know about or if your definition of a […]

To help support you on that bookstore dream journey, in this podcast episode, I’m going to try to describe some of the different types of novel model bookstores that exist so that as you consider what type of bookstore reality best fits your bookstore owning dream, even if you haven’t experienced one of these in person, hopefully hearing about them will provide some additional suggestions for how to turn that dream into a reality.

Once upon a time, someone had the brilliant idea to open a bookstore. For the purposes of this podcast episode, it’s not really all that important when and why and where someone else did that. The important part is when and why and where YOU want to open an independent bookstore.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that all cities, towns, and even neighborhoods are in need of an independent bookstore. And yet, there is no one single way to accomplish this. But, there are some universal truths about opening an independent bookstore, in America at least, that each new bookstore owner should acknowledge. And that is where this podcast episode comes in. Welcome to The First Five Things to do when starting to consider opening an independent bookstore.

My name is BrocheAroe Fabian, and I am a bookseller. For over 15 years, I have turned my love of reading into a book industry career. I want to help other people make their independent bookstore dreams come true.