How to Start and Run a Used Bookstore: A Bookstore Owner's Essential Toolkit with Real-World Insights, Strategies, Forms, and Procedures

Download or read book How to Start and Run a Used Bookstore: A Bookstore Owner's Essential Toolkit with Real-World Insights, Strategies, Forms, and Procedures written by Stephanie Chandler and published by . This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features include: worksheets: budget planning, evaluating competition, forecasting; business basics: what you need to get started; inventory: twelve sources for acquiring used books; suppliers: library supplies, printed goods, retail supplies; shop set-up: store layout, book categories, bookseller software and tools; operating procedures: trade policies, overstock, and a sample operations manual; marketing: low-cost and no-cost tactics for maximum exposure; website: steps for setting up a website and selling books online; resources: dozens of useful website links; business plan: sample business plan (actual plan used by the author)--P. [4] of cover.