Ben Archer's Book Blog

A few weeks ago I was showing Wordsworth Classics at the New England Independent Booksellers Association (NEIBA) annual fall conference in P...

It's been a while since I posted about real books vs e-books. When I started blogging I had a long pent up rant going on regarding the t...

It was great seeing about 30 of my closest friends in San Francisco on September 5th. I brought Nationwide Book Industries' samples, an...

Here they come. The winter holidays ended yesterday and they start today. Pick a day, any day. When I started in this business, Halloween ...

There is something wondrous about the world of a publisher's rep. I'm sure they would beg to differ, and rightly so, since this is p...

Best sellers are in the trade news again, with Amazon and Overstock announcing new discounts of 51% to 65% off list price, so I called a few...

I've been a manager and a buyer for bookstores and wholesalers, managed a buying group, owned a bookstore and two wholesale companies. O...