From the Editor by Craig Stark #157, 22 August 2011

Back to work after a short summer vacation, as is our Selling on Amazon columnist Kristian Strom. Kristian discusses an approach to bookselling that some of you may never have considered and along the way interviews a bookseller with a very different approach indeed - Thatcher Wine of Juniper Books.

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