2006 Archives of
The BookThinker Newsletter


ISSN 1547-9501

#59, 2 January 2006

  1. From the Editor
  2. The Principles of Bookselling - How to Identify and Apply Them
  3. Collecting Science Fiction - The Science of Magic - There's a Method in the Madness
  4. 50/50 Issue #8 - Now Available
  5. Update Announcements
  6. Letters To The Editor
  7. Book Repair for BookThinkers - Prevention and Treatment of Mold and Mildew
  8. Gold Edition #23 - How To Become a Full-Time Bookseller Part I: The Importance of Book Lots

#60, 16 January 2006

  1. From the Editor
  2. Cashing In On Altered Perceptions in the "Book" Market Why DVDs Work for Booksellers
  3. On The Trail of the Torch Bearer - Part I: An Interview with Scot Kamins
  4. Update Announcements
  5. Buying and Selling Children's Books - The Malt Shop Era
    v50/50 Issue #9 - Now Available

#61, 30 January 2006

  1. From the Editor
  2. BookThink's Top 10 on eBay - December 2005
  3. Selling Textbooks - A BookThink Primer - The Bread and Bane of Bookselling
  4. Update Announcements
  5. Collecting Science Fiction - Collecting and Reselling Science Fiction and Fantasy Series Novels
  6. Collecting and Selling Paperback Fiction - Romance 101 - Part I

#62, 13 February 2006

  1. From the Editor
  2. On the Trail of the Torch Bearer - Part II: An Interview with Henry Toledano
  3. Book Repair for BookThinkers - Drying Wet Books, Repairing Bumped Corners, Cleaning Covers and Removing Labels
  4. Update Announcements
  5. Ten Ways to Jump Start Your Bookselling Business - In the Dead of Winter
  6. Buying and Selling Children's Books - The Career Romance Novel
  7. Gold Edition #24 - How To Become a Full-Time Bookseller Part II: Strategies for Grouping Books into Lots

#63, 29 February 2006

  1. From the Editor
  2. Local Venues - A Brick and Mortar Alternative
  3. BookThink's Bookseller Profiles - Gail Rodgers
  4. Update Announcements
  5. Collecting Science Fiction - Collecting and Reselling Science Fiction and Fantasy Series - Part II: Modern Series
  6. BookThink's Top 10 on eBay - January 2006
  7. 50/50 Issue #10 - Now Available

#64, 13 March 2006

  1. From the Editor
  2. Buying and Selling Paperback Fiction - Romance 101: Part II
  3. Book Repair for BookThinkers - How to Remove (or Disguise) Roach Excrement Stains
  4. Update Announcements
  5. How To Double Your Book Sales Overnight - The Spots They Are A-Changin- - Again!
  6. Buying and Selling Children's Books - Separating the Wheat From the Chaff at Sales and Thrifts
  7. Gold Edition #25 - How To Become a Full-Time Bookseller Part III: Starting and Maintaining a Scouting Book
  8. 50/50 Issue #10 - Now Available
#65, 27 March 2006
  1. From the Editor
  2. Building A Book Web Site - Update: How Did We Do?
  3. BookThink's Bookseller Profiles - Ashland Book Company
  4. Update Announcements
  5. Further Adventures in Book Land - An Interview with John Dunning
  6. Profits in VHS Tapes - Documentaries and Other Nonfiction
  7. 50/50 Issue #11 - Now Available
#66, 17 April 2006
  1. From the Editor
  2. Collecting Science Fiction - In Memoriam
  3. BookThink's Top 10 on eBay - February 2006
  4. Update Announcements
  5. Book Repair for BookThinkers - How to Restore Gilt
  6. Gold Edition #26 - How To Become a Full-Time Bookseller - Part IV: Inventory Outside the Box
#67, 24 April 2006
  1. From the Editor
  2. Building Your Bookselling Vocabulary - The Fast Track to Success
  3. HELP! - BookThink is Growing, Growing, Growing
  4. Update Announcements
  5. Buying and Selling Children's Books - Come with Me to the Days of Yesteryear ...
  6. BookThink's eBay Top 10 - March 2006
  7. 50/50 Issue #12 - Now Available
#68, 7 May 2006
  1. From the Editor
  2. Collecting Science Fiction - The Lie Agreed Upon - The Secret History Book in Science Fiction
  3. Selling on Amazon - Part I: An Introduction to - Amazon's Buyer's Waiting List
  4. Update Announcements
  5. BookThink's Ten Most Common Myths About Book Values - Or, How to Win an Argument with a Misguided Seller
  6. Collecting The First Edition Library - Frightening Fascimiles
  7. Gold Edition #27 - How To Become a Full-Time Bookseller Part V: Evaluating Book Collections for Purchase and Negotiating a Deal
#69, 22 May 2006
  1. From the Editor
  2. BookThink's Author Profiles - Storytelling is Alive and Well A Conversation with Nick Arvin
  3. Book Repair for BookThinkers - How to Remove Odors From Books
  4. Update Announcements
  5. BookThink's NewsFlash
  6. Buying and Selling Magic Books - Part I: The High End
  7. 50/50 Issue #13 - Now Available
#70, 5 June 2006
  1. From the Editor
  2. More Book Sales in Your Future? - Good News, and Then Some More Good News
  3. Buying And Selling Children's Books - First We Kill Off the Parents ...
  4. Update Announcements
  5. BookThink's Author Profiles - An Interview with Janet Evanovich
  6. BookThink's Top 10 on eBay - April 2006
#71, 19 June 2006
  1. From the Editor
  2. Selling on Amazon - Part 2: An Introduction to Amazon's Buyers Waiting List
  3. Book Repair for BookThinkers - Preserving and Restoring Leather Bindings
  4. BookThink's NewsFlash
  5. Update Announcements
  6. The Future of Bookselling - How to Succeed In Spite of It Introduction
  7. Collecting Science Fiction - An Interview with Ray Bradbury
#72, 3 July 2006
  1. From the Editor
  2. The Future of Bookselling - How To Succeed In Spite of It Part II: New School and Old School Bookselling
  3. BookThink's Top 10 on eBay - May 2006
  4. Update Announcements
  5. George Vanderbilt's Library - A Dream Realized - An Interview with Suzanne Durham
  6. The Library at Biltmore - A Brief History
  7. Contrived Nature - Landscape Architecture & Its Role at Biltmore House
  8. Denizens of Biltmore - The Cast
  9. 50/50 Issue #14 - See the Light - Now Available
    vGold Edition #28 - How To Become a Full-Time Bookseller Part VI: How To Move Inventory
#73, 17 July 2006
  1. Special Supplement to The BookThinker, #73 Update - How To Beat The eBay Stores Fee Increase - 15 Strategies to Consider
  2. From the Editor
  3. BookThink's Author Profiles - Kangaroos to Climate Change An Interview with Dr. Tim Flannery
  4. Selling on Amazon - Can Amazon Sellers Rely on Email?
  5. Update Announcements
  6. Buying and Selling Children's Books - There's No Business Like Show Business
  7. Book Repair for BookThinkers - Repairing Split Hinges and Gutters
  8. Introducing .... BookHunt - Software Designed for Buying Inventory Online
#74, 7 August 2006
  1. From the Editor
  2. Collecting Science Fiction - The Language of Books
  3. Buying and Selling Magic Books - Part II: Alternative Approaches
  4. Update Announcements
  5. Putting A Face on Faceless Venues - An Interview with Alibris' A.J. Kohn
  6. Top 10 on eBay - June 2006
  7. 50/50 Issue #15 - Fish, Fur and Game Shows - Now Available
  8. Gold Edition #29 - How To Become a Full-Time Bookseller Part VII: Timely Tools of the Trade
#75, 14 August 2006
  1. From the Editor
  2. A Heritage Press Retrospective - "How These Books Came to Be"
  3. Buying and Selling Heritage Books - A Primer
  4. Selling On Amazon - A Review of AMan Pro
  5. Update Announcements
  6. Putting A Face on Faceless Venues - An Interview with Biblio's Kevin Donaldson
#76, 28 August 2006
  1. From the Editor
  2. Buying and Selling - The Everyman's Library - A Primer
  3. The Everyman's Library Checklist - An Introduction
  4. Update Announcements
  5. Book Repair for BookThinkers - How to Replace Endleaves
  6. BookThink's Top 10 on eBay - July 2006
  7. Gold Edition #30 - How To Become a Full-Time Bookseller Part VIII: Bringing It Home - The Moral Imperative
  8. 50/50 Issue #16 - Opportunities in Music (Primarily Classical) Now Available
#77, 11 September 2006
  1. From the Editor
  2. Putting a Face on Faceless Venues - An Interview with Abebooks' Sue Connors
  3. Update Announcements
  4. I Meant What I Said But ... - Maybe It Will Help to Elaborate
  5. Selling on Amazon - Cashing in by Adding Books To Amazon's Catalog
#78, 25 September 2006
  1. From the Editor
  2. Collecting Science Fiction - Fear is the Mind Killer - The Dune Series of Frank Herbert
  3. Bookmarking History - Collecting the Middle Ages
  4. Update Announcements
  5. The Louis Bromfield Legacy - Malabar Farm
  6. Louis Bromfield - The Man Behind the Farm
  7. Message From Biblio
  8. 50/50 Issue #17 - Vintage Fashion - Now Available
#79, 9 October 2006
  1. From the Editor
  2. Selling on Amazon - Using Web 2.0 to Power Your Book Sales
  3. Buying and Selling Children's Books - "Max Was a Wild Thing" A Bookselling Guide to Maurice Sendak
  4. 50/50 Issue #17 - Vintage Fashion - Now Available
  5. Gold Edition - How To Become a Full-Time Bookseller Part VIII: Bringing It Home The Moral Imperative
  6. Update Announcements
  7. Top 10 on eBay - August 2006
  8. Bookseller's Profiles - Judy Lanskey
  9. Alibris Announcement
#80, 23 October 2006
  1. From the Editor
  2. The Long White Mystery - Deep in the Woods - and Nearly Lost - with Clara Dean Marshall
  3. The Long White Month - A Personal Retrospective
  4. Update Announcements
  5. Buying and Selling Children's Books - When You Can't Find Anything at the Children's Books Sale ... - ... Look for Teacher Books!
  6. Children's Picturebook Price Guide - A BookThink Review
  7. Gold Edition #32 - How To Buy and Sell Photobooks
  8. 50/50 Issue #17 - Vintage Fashion - Now Available
#81, 6 November 2006
  1. From the Editor
  2. Who Is Your Competition? - And Why It Matters
  3. Selling on Amazon - The Case of the Shrinking Online Bookstore
  4. Update Announcements
  5. The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber
  6. BookThink's Top 10 on eBay - September 2006
  7. 50/50 Issue #18 - Vintage Fashion - Now Available
#82, 20 November 2006
  1. From the Editor
  2. When Less Is More - Some Observations on eBay Stores After the Fee Increases
  3. BookThink's Bookseller Profiles - Profile of Julie Anna Schultz
  4. Update Announcements
  5. When Less is More - An Additional Observation on eBay Stores After the Fee Increases
  6. How To Package Books Part I: Making a Case for B-Flute
                Part II: Packaging with B-Flute
  7. Gold Edition #33 - How To Buy and Sell Photobooks
#83, 4 December 2006
  1. From the Editor
  2. Caught Any Carp Lately? - Angling for Profits in Bookland
  3. BookThink's Top 10 on eBay - October 2006
  4. Update Announcements
  5. Selling on Amazon - A Simple, Cheap Method for Bulk Listing on Amazon
  6. BookThink's Bookseller Profile - Travis McFarland
  7. 50/50 Issue #19 - Dogs, Dogs and More Dogs - Now Available
#84, 18 December 2006
  1. From the Editor
  2. How To Package Books Part I: Making a Case for B-Flute
                Part II: Packaging with B-Flute
  3. Buying and Selling Children's Books - A Modern Day Christmas Carol - (Internet Style)
  4. Update Announcements
  5. Collecting Science Fiction - An End of Days - Identity and Meaning in the Shadow of the Dying Earth
  6. A Novel Approach - Dan Martin's Journey Back



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