Ben Archer's Book Blog

I hobble down the main street in my neighborhood, going from one bookstore to another (there are only two). One is a used bookstore which st...

Strange what motivates me to write my first post in how many years: Costco's decision to stop selling books.  This might be bad for publ...

I keep saying I'm going to get back to regular blog posts, and then I stop. A few months go by, I try to start a post, then stop again. ...

I had a dear customer respond quickly to my post of yesterday with questions and suggestions. I am transposing them here, much paraphrased t...

It has been a long time since I've posted. My plan is to post once or twice per week, add a "best seller" page for books we at...

Booksellers are the people who sell books for the independent bookstores that employ them, the people who, when they see you walk into their...

This is the time of year I start to hear from customers about how they're doing, how their sales increased, or stayed flat, or went down...