A Wisdom Archive on Booksellers

Bookselling is the trading of books of a very ancient date. The early poets and orators recited their effusions in public to encourage their hearers to possess written copies of their poems or orations. Frequently they were taken down viva voce(Latin for "live voice"), and transcripts sold to such to persons wealthy enough to purchase. Bookselling - History. Bookselling - Greek and Roman Booksellers. In the book of Jeremiah the prophet is represented as dictating to Baruc ... Including:

• Bookselling - History
• Bookselling - Greek and Roman Booksellers
• Bookselling - Christianity
• Bookselling - Modern bookselling
• Bookselling - Selling and publishing
• Bookselling - Bookselling in America

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A bookstore (North American English) or bookshop (Commonwealth English) is a retailer that primarily sells books. Bookstores can range in size from local independent bookstores offering several hundred titles to large brick-and-mortar chains offering upwards of 200,000 titles. Online bookstores may offer many times more titles. Bookstores often sell items related to books such as newspapers and travel maps. Colleges and universities often have their own student bookstore on campus that focuses on providing course textbooks, although some on-campus bookstores are o ...

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Alibris is an on-line store that sells used books, out-of-print books, rare books, and other media articles through an on-line network of thousands of independent bookstores. Booksellers in many countries list their inventories on Alibris which in turn offers the books on its website, as well as other channels such as Barnes and Noble and Borders Books. In return, it receives a monthly fee and a percentage commission on sales. The business premise is that Alibris can save a small bookseller time and money by listing once with Alibris ... Including:

• Alibris - External link

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BookFinder.com is a website that helps readers buy books online. The site's meta-search engine scans the inventories of over 100,000 booksellers located around the world. Users can find the lowest price for a book of their choice from over 100 million volumes available for sale, and purchase titles directly from the bookseller, without a markup. BookFinder.com is known for its ability to find new, used, rare, and out-of-print books via a single search. The website can find ...

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Barnes & Noble, Inc. is the largest specialty retailer in the world, chiefly through the operations of its Barnes & Noble Booksellers chain of bookstores based in the United States. Additionally, in some markets, the company operates the smaller Bookstar and B. Dalton Booksellers chains, with the latter's branches chiefly located in shopping malls. The company is known for large, upscale retail outlets, many of which contain a cafe serving Starbucks coffee, and for competitive discounting of bestsellers. M ... Including:

• Barnes & Noble - Publishing
• Barnes & Noble - Starbucks and Barnes & Noble

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Book Sense is a marketing program of the American Booksellers Association, in which many independently-owned (non-chain) bookstores across North America participate, in order to better compete with the large book chains. The booksense.com Web site, which can be accessed via Wikipedia's ISBN lookup, has a large database of books (over 2 million titles). Shoppers are directed to the Web site of the nearest partici ...

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There are some famous people named Brentano or von Brentano: August Brentano, bookseller Bernard von Brentano, novelist Christian Brentano Clemens Brentano, poet and novelist, brother of Bettina von Arnim (b. Brentano) Franz Brentano, philosopher, influenced phenomenology and gestalt psychology Heinrich von Brentano di Tremezzo, politician (CDU) Lorenz Brentano, politician Lujo Brentano, economist, reformer Maximiliane Brentano, befrien ...

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Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE, (born August 18, 1925 in East Dereham, Norfolk) is a prolific English author of both general fiction and science fiction. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss. Brian Aldiss - Biography. After World War II, he worked as a bookseller in Oxford. Besides short science fiction for various magazines, he wrote a number of short pieces for a booksellers trade journal about life in a fictitious bookshop, and this attracted the attention of Char ... Including:

• Brian Aldiss - Biography
• Brian Aldiss - Books
• Brian Aldiss - Fiction
• Brian Aldiss - Poetry
• Brian Aldiss - Non-Fiction

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Abebooks (formerly the Advanced Book Exchange) is an online marketplace for books, most books listed are ordinary used books, many rare or out-of-print; and also a growing number of new books. The company, based in Victoria, Canada and having offices in Düsseldorf, Germany and Oviedo, Spain was incorporated in 1995 and launched their website in 1996. At present, they claim to list more than 80 million titles on sale by 14 000 booksellers. Sellers pay a monthly subscription to list their books on the site, ranging from $25 to $ ... Including:

• Abebooks - Business model
• Abebooks - History
• Abebooks - Reseller programs

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A semantic link is a typed link where the element itself provides meaningful information about the link (semantics). For instance, in XML, you might have a BookTitle element <BookTitle isbn="0812511816"/>. You can use the semantic information provided in the element (the ISBN number) to create a link from this element to an online bookseller. The link describes some external relationship or issue. An example of a semantic link would be (any syntax expressing) "A is-mother-of B". Some other relations like "B is-child-of A" may be implied by it.

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