On the subject of books, "What a weird world we live in when so beautiful a thing can be owned for life - for the price of a ticket to a Broadway movie palace, or 1/50th the cost of having one tooth capped." - Helene Hanff, 84 Charing Cross Road
Wednesday, 24 June 2015
Tuesday, 23 June 2015
More books for the bookshop in Ramsgate
Another batch of secondhand books for the bookshop here in
Ramsgate. Looking at the webstats for this blog I notice the readership is
surprisingly international with a large amount of American readers. Here in the
UK bookselling has undergone a radical change since around 1980 when our price
fixing agreement - the net book agreement floundered - this was compounded by
the coming of internet bookselling. This meant that I switched from selling new
books at the fixed full price, to selling a mixture of new and secondhand
(used) books that I could source in a way that meant I could sell them for much
less than the chain bookshops and latterly the internet.
Our price structure is a bi of the wall, compared to
most other bookshops, prices for individual books start at 5p i.e. 20 for a
pound sterling and go up to books that cost hundreds of pounds. At the moment I
guess the average paperback price is around £1.50 and the average hardback around
£3.
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