FabJob Guide to Become a Bookstore Owner (FabJob Guides) (FabJob Guides) [Paperback]

Grace Jasmine (Author)

Book Description

Series: FabJob Guides | Publication Date: July 1, 2005

Get Paid to Read, Buy and Sell Books

Imagine having a rewarding career as a bookstore owner. You will have the freedom to make your own decisions and express your creative spirit while you discover new books and share old favorites. Order the FabJob Guide to Become a Bookstore Owner to learn:

How to decide what type of bookstore to open
How to prepare a business plan and get financing to open your bookstore
Where to get books and other products for your store and how to determine their selling price
How to set up your bookstore to increase sales
How to market your bookstore business to attract customers

The print book includes a bonus CD-ROM with forms and samples you can use in starting your own business.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Without a doubt this is the single greatest resource an aspiring bookstore owner can have. An absolute must read! --Rick Segel, author Retail Business Kit For Dummies

About the Author

Author Grace Jasmine has spent the past 15 years working directly with bookstore owners and publishers. To write this book, she picked the brains of who is who in the bookselling industry. The experts who share insider advice in this powerful how-to guide include Oren J. Teicher, Chief Operating Officer of the American Booksellers Association, Suzanne Brooks, President of the Canadian Booksellers Association, plus a dozen other book industry professionals and bookstore owners.

Product Details

• Paperback: 278 pages
• Publisher: FabJob.com; Bk&CD-Rom edition (July 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 189463876X
• ISBN-13: 978-1894638760
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #225,719 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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59 of 63 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Somewhat useful, but too generic, September 13, 2005

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Judith (Santa Cruz, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: FabJob Guide to Become a Bookstore Owner (FabJob Guides) (FabJob Guides) (Paperback)

This reads like an adaptation of boilerplate content for a generic start-your-own business or imageine-your-future guide. It's part of a series on various dream-business topics, so that's probably exactly what it is. There are useful resources mentioned, but it's not specific and detailed enough, and you'll need to find the free listservs for bookstore owners and lurk there to learn the nitty gritty. What's the minimum square footage for a successful used bookstore, for instance? Instead, it includes too much commonsense info such as a "tip" telling you that you can find the copyright date of a book on the back of one of the title page. Geez! Anybody interested in books would know that. And makeup as a suggested sideline product in a bookstore?! Still, if you're just starting to do serious research into this business, it's the least expensive and most readily available book available as of this writing 9/2005. The best ones are either out of print, so hard to find and pricey, and the ones from the bookseller trade associations would be better to buy only after you know the realities of how costly it is and profitable it isn't to start any kind of bookstore. They're expensive. Go to one of the annual Book Expos and start your research there when you're really serious. (This book doesn't mention that invaluable resource, other than vague recommendations to attend trade shows.) My guess is that the author knows her stuff but was hamstrung by the publisher's constrained format requirements.

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Resource, March 9, 2006

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Beth Johnson "Beth Johnson" (Irvine, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: FabJob Guide to Become a Bookstore Owner (FabJob Guides) (FabJob Guides) (Paperback)

I have been thinking about opening a bookstore for years and I really enjoyed this book. The information was very important to me in my process of getting started. The book covers not only the basics (which I definitely needed) but gave me a lot of industry information that I was having trouble finding. I liked the quotes from booksellers. It looks like the author really did a lot of research to put this together. I would recommend this book to anyone who is thinking about opening a bookstore!

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth every penny!, December 21, 2006

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Terri Smalls (NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: FabJob Guide to Become a Bookstore Owner (FabJob Guides) (FabJob Guides) (Paperback)

It has been my dream to open up a bookstore for years. So, I decided to research it. I purchased this book and my copy is marked up completely. It contains my notes, sticky papers and more. It gave me valuable research that I feel would have taken me at least a year to obtain on my own. In addition, alot of her research is research you cannot get on-line. The reason is because it includes interviews she conducted with bookstore owners asking about their experiences of being a store owner, resources, ideas and more. It is crystal clear to me that a great deal of time and research went into putting this book together. As an author myself, I personally know how time consuming research can be in writing a book. So, Trust me, this book will be worth every penny!