Bookselling
Bookselling is the commercial trading of books which is the retail and distribution end of the publishing process.
People who engage in bookselling are called booksellers, bookdealers, bookpeople, bookmen, or bookwomen. The founding of libraries in c. 300 BC stimulated the energies of the Athenian booksellers.
History
In Rome, toward the end of the republic, it became the fashion to have a library, and Roman booksellers carried on a flourishing trade.[1]
The spread of
Modern era
Bookstores (called bookshops in the
Another common type of bookstore is the
Book sales
Unit sales of print books in the United States were down 2.6 percent in 2023 compared to 2022, but print sales in 2023 were up 10 percent compared to 2019.[7]
See also
- Book store shoplifting
- Bookstore tourism
- History of books
- Independent bookstore
- List of independent bookstores
- Quarter bin
Notes and references
- JSTOR 25542662.
- ISBN 9781610977562.
- ISBN 0-900002-23-9
- ISBN 978-0-900002-18-2
- ^ "The Bouquinistes of Paris". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 2022-05-01.
- ^ Les Cahiers français (Issues 13-24) (in French). La Documentation Française. 1957. p. 30.
- ^ Milliot, Jim (2024-01-05). "Print Book Sales Fell 2.6% in 2023". Publishers Weekly. PWxyz, LLC. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
Further reading
- Davis, Joshua Clark, "Una Mulzac, Black Woman Booksellers, and Pan-Africanism", AAIHS, September 19, 2016.
- Lister, Anthony, 'William Ford: the Universal Bookseller' The Book Collector 38 (1989):343-371.
- Thomas, Alan G. (1979). "Solomon Pottesman."The Book Collector 28 no 4:545-553.