Bookselling

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"Bookstore" and "Bookseller" redirect here. For the British magazine, see The Bookseller. For the Roald Dahl short story, see The Bookseller (short story). For the publisher, see The Quarto Group. For the booking shops dealing in betting and gambling, see Bookmaker.
"Bookshop" redirects here. For other uses, see Bookshop (disambiguation).
Cărturești Carusel, a bookshop in a historical building from Bucharest (Romania), built in 1860 as a bank. Its interior combines Baroque Revival architecture with modern design
Bookshop in Marburg (Hesse, Germany)
Interior of the bookshop from the Singer House (Saint Petersburg, Russia)

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

Main article: History of bookselling

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

book distributors offer affiliate programs
and dominate book sales.

Modern era

A bookshop in the town of Sastamala (Pirkanmaa, Finland)
Atuagkat Bookstore in the city of Nuuk (Sermersooq, Greenland)

Bookstores (called bookshops in the

Barnes & Noble College Booksellers
in the United States.

Roadside book stall and bookseller, College Street, Kolkata, India.

Another common type of bookstore is the

Book collectors tend to frequent used bookstores. Large online bookstores offer used books for sale, too. Individuals wishing to sell their used books using online bookstores agree to terms outlined by the bookstore(s): paying the online bookstore(s) a predetermined commission once the books have sold. In Paris, the Bouquinistes are antiquarian and used booksellers who have had outdoor stalls and boxes along both sides of the Seine for hundreds of years, regulated by law since the 1850s and contributing to the scenic ambiance of the city.[5][6]

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

Notes and references

  1. JSTOR 25542662
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  2. ISBN 9781610977562
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  3. ISBN 0-900002-23-9
  4. ISBN 978-0-900002-18-2
  5. ^ "The Bouquinistes of Paris". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 2022-05-01.
  6. ^ Les Cahiers français (Issues 13-24) (in French). La Documentation Française. 1957. p. 30.
  7. ^ Milliot, Jim (2024-01-05). "Print Book Sales Fell 2.6% in 2023". Publishers Weekly. PWxyz, LLC. Retrieved 2024-01-10.

Further reading

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