http://hughlh.com/bookselling Sun, 09 Mar 2008 07:15:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My new home on the internet is hughlh.com. You can read my blog, contact me or whatever. There is also a comprehensive list of the various social networking sites I am on, such as FaceBook, MySpace and so on.Since I write for a number of blogs, you can read ... http://hughlh.com/bookselling/uncategorized/finding-hugh/ As you no doubt know, my shop closed some time ago when I moved out of town. However, a friend of mine has decided to give my friends at Burke's a run for their money and open a used bookstore in the heart of Midtown, Memphis.Her name is Karin, and ... http://hughlh.com/bookselling/uncategorized/used-bookstore-to-open-in-midtown-memphis/ Bookselling has been good to me as a career. Right now, I am on hiatus from selling as I closed my open shop and am transitioning to a catalogue only shop (Around the end of first quarter 2008- let me know if you want to get on the catalogue list). I ... http://hughlh.com/bookselling/books/giving-back-to-bookselling/ A quick post today, as I am  still trying to recover from my moving across the country last month, sell some books and post on about 6 blogs, but this one was too good to pass up. The unstoppable Joyce Godsey over at the bullpen shared some very cool conservation links ... http://hughlh.com/bookselling/uncategorized/book-conservation-links/ Fellow blogger and all around good guy Steve has a post on his blog from his wife, Christine who is an online bookseller. She sells new and remaindered books but is on track to gross $120,000 this year. The post has some great pictures of her workspace and shipping area ... http://hughlh.com/bookselling/uncategorized/as-seen-on-the-internet-9-20-07/ The awesome and exuberant Chris Lowenstein "did" her first fair over the wekend and she tells you all about it with two posts on her blog; First with a colorful metaphor and then with brilliant pictures of her very impressive booth. Go over to her blog and say hi. It is ... http://hughlh.com/bookselling/uncategorized/book-hunters-holiday-sacramento-book-fair-report/ Buying at auctions has consistently been one of my better sources. There are several reasons for this, among them a big one is lack of competition. In a thrift store, say, you are competing against not only all the other dealers who stop by, but also the general public, the ... http://hughlh.com/bookselling/uncategorized/handy-tool-helps-you-find-offline-auctions/ Jed Birmingham, a Burroughs collector of some note, gave a stirring write up on his blog of the Baltimore Antique Show. He mentioned several booksellers of note, including Between The Covers, Lux Mentis and Royal Books. He goes into tremendous detail and waxes so nicely about Ian at Lux Mentis, you ... http://hughlh.com/bookselling/uncategorized/baltimore-antique-show-a-collectors-report/ If you are buying from (or selling to) someone on eBay with tons of feedback, there is no easy system in place to only see the negative feedback. If someone has 500 feedback but 10 negatives, I want to see what those negatives were. If they have trouble shipping in ... http://hughlh.com/bookselling/book-buying/root-out-bad-feedback/ If you sell on eBay, have your own website or just want to post in your favorite web forum, it helps to know some HTML. Most of what I know about HTML, I learned by cutting and pasting. Here is a good list of cut and paste HTML tags. If you ... http://hughlh.com/bookselling/ebay/basic-html-for-dummies/