The BookThinker Newsletter ISSN 1547-9501 #59, 2 January 2006

BookThink Update
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Update Announcements

Letters To The Editor

Book Repair for BookThinkers Prevention and Treatment of Mold and Mildew BookThink's book repair expert Gail Altman returns today with a look at mold and mildew. This can be a bookseller's nightmare, and, as is true with so many other maladies, prevention is much easier to accomplish than a cure. Gail discusses both in detail.

Gold Edition #23 How To Become a Full-Time Bookseller Part I: The Importance of Book Lots Issue #23 of the Gold Edition is now available for purchase. This is Part I of a two-part series on How to Become a Full-Time Bookseller Purchase now.

From the Editor Important announcements for BookThinker readers.

The Principles of Bookselling How to Identify and Apply Them This week, as part of a new BookThink series on full-time bookselling, I'm going to discuss what I believe no full-time bookseller can succeed without: an ability to extract and apply bookselling principles from the raw data of sales.

The Science of Magic There's a Method in the Madness Collecting Science Fiction In today's issue, Science Fiction Editor Timothy Doyle departs from his usual focus on adult fiction and explores the realm of children's science fiction.

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