(alternate title; the books are weak?)
I know I’m about … oh, 9 months late posting this, but better late than never. Enjoy the awesome folks at Vroman’s acting out a bookselling-themed version of Baldwin’s epic speech from Glengarry Glenn Ross.
The scene starts at about the 1:55 mark, and I will be quoting it all day.
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Chris Morrow, the store’s general manager and progeny of the store founders, was kind enough to take some time out of his busy schedule to answer a couple questions about Northshire’s past, present and future.
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Every bookseller knows the feeling. A customer comes in looking for a book. They can’t remember any words from the title. They can’t recall the author’s name or much of anything about the book. They think that maybe it was in the store’s front window last fall and the cover is [...]
Yesterday, I put my indie bookselling cred on the line and memory to the test, resolving to recommend a book from each of the sections in our store. 9 hours and nearly 60 recommendations later, I pulled it off.
Collected here, you have proof that there’s no real reason (at least in terms of quality) to [...]
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Bookseller or Book Provider?
Give your customers what they want, not what you’re used to giving them.
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