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BookThink is the #1 ranked resource provider for online and open shop book dealers,
book collectors, and serious readers. Resources include:
- The BookThinker, a free twice monthly newsletter covering a wide range of bookselling and collecting topics.
- BookThink's Gold Edition, a monthly newsletter supplying profit-generating insider information to booksellers.
- BookThink's Quarterly Market Report of Common, Profitable Books, a market report targeting high-profit, in-demand books that are likely to surface on scouting trips.
- A moderated book forum;
an extensive library of active and pertinent
book-related links;
book reviews; interviews with authors and other notables; and intensive tutorials on practical book repair, grading, terminology, buying for resale, selling books online and off, building a personal book collection, and more.
The BookThinker Newsletter
ISSN 1547-9501
#60, 16 January 2006
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BookThink Update
23 January 2006>>>
Important Announcement
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Buying and Selling Children's Books
The Malt Shop Era
BookThink's Children's Books Editor Guusje Moore stops by today to explore the world of Malt Shop books. If you don't know what these are, you're in for a treat - and some sweet profits as well. There's nothing like nostalgia to pry open purses and wallets.
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50/50 Issue #9
Now Available
Issue #9 of 50/50 is now available for purchase; it's a special issue on children's books. Subscribe today
here.
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Cashing In On Altered Perceptions
in the "Book" Market
Why DVDs Work for Booksellers
As promised, more about bending your perceptions of what constitutes a book today and how important this can be to your bottom line - especially if you have aspirations to move to full-time bookselling. This time the "books" I'll be discussing are DVDs. There's one sector of the DVD market in particular that's red hot as we speak, and exploiting it for profit couldn't be simpler for booksellers.
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On The Trail of the Torch Bearer
Part I: An Interview with Scot Kamins
Also today, BookThink's Media Editor Catherine Petruccione interviews Scot Kamins. Modern Library aficionados will recognize Scot as the creator and host of dogeared.com - a highly regarded online resource for Modern Library collecting. And fortunately it won't end with this. Next month look for an interview with Modern Library guru Harry Toledano.
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FAQ
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Previous BookThinker Update -
BookThink Update
9 January 2006>>>
Letters To The Editor
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