too many books - part 2
Jun 6th, 2010 by lesley
The local secondhand bookstore doesn’t buy books. “Sorry, I have too many books.” I’m tempted to try and sell them myself, but I won’t. That’s not the point of the June Challenge. I’m happy to donate the books evenly between the local library and Lifeline. On another note, I think it’s insane for a brick and mortar bookstore not to have an online presence in this day and age. (They don’t - I’ve checked.) And I don’t mean Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace. I wonder what percentage of their stock has been sitting on the shelves for more than 2 years? More than 5? At some point you must have to either cut your losses and just get rid of the deadwood titles to allow room for newer, better stock, or try some other tack to shift them and attempt to recover some of the overhead. A $10 book on the shelf ends up costing you way more than that in terms of rent, electricity and staff wages if it just sits there unsold.
How many books have I purged to date? 81
You really need to open a bookshop/cafe. Actually I heard there might be a space in Hornsby opening up if you are interested.
guatemala will also accept donations!
and i second the bookshop cafe idea.
We have a friend who has over 10,000 books, mainly theological.
And 4 kids. You should have seen their place when they lived at College!
Jo - I am putting some aside for you!