Talk:Bookselling
Books are often portrayed as one of the most ubiquitous media. I am looking for facts to support this. In particular, I wonder if anyone has a good guess of the number of shops where one can potentially buy books in the US ? This would include the specialist bookstores, but also all places where at least a few books are sold (your local coffee shop, your garden center, etc.). PhilippeK
Here are the data on bookstores from the 2002 Census of Retail Trade, by NAICS (North American Industry Classification):
451211 Book stores: 10,860
By type:
4512111 Book stores, general 6,326
4512112 Specialty book stores 2,695
4512113 College book stores 1,839
For data on employees and sales, see:
Nonemployer bookstores are listed separately and not subdivided by type. There were 10,306 of them.
Dynzmoar 14:23, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
BL link
Please note the link to the BL: these pages are produced by professional information workers for a not-for profit government body to help people research the industry. Not selling anything It's not linkspam.
I like history too, but...
I think the history of bookselling is interesting, but that's all this article seems to be. It should either be moved to Bookselling (history) or given a good sized paragraph at the top relating to the sales and marketing side of the present day publishing industry. Rlitwin 15:00, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Suggested merge
I see no reason why this article on bookselling and a separate article called bookstore need to exist. The current articles are split between a good start at a history (this article) and a pretty slim near-dicdef (bookstore) explaining that the present establishments called bookstores are places where books are sold. I propose that, unless someone can provide a reason why these two topics are separate subjects for separate articles, the two ought to be merged (and "bookselling" is a slightly more general and less dictionary-like name for the merged article). -- Rbellin|Talk 16:45, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Why would you want to merge them, it saves people time if they are split so they don't have to find the specific spot in one article. This way they can find the information that they need in one easy stop.
Why merge them?
Why would you want to merge them, it saves people time if they are split so they don't have to find the specific spot in one article. This way they can find the information that they need in one easy stop.