September Workshop Focuses on Opening or Buying a Bookstore

Retail bookselling is a unique business that demands attention to many different aspects of the start-up process and ongoing operations. Long-term sustainability requires that owners capitalize on a bricks-and-mortar store’s competitive advantages, understand how the industry works, and be able to add entrepreneurial energy and creativity.

The workshop retreat “Owning a Bookstore: The Business Essentials,” to be held from September 12 - 16 on Amelia Island (near Jacksonville, Florida), will enable prospective booksellers to make an informed decision about opening or buying store and will give them a solid foundation for turning their dreams into reality.

Workshop topics include best practices for driving sales, achieving efficiencies with a computerized management system, creating a magical sense of place with store design and merchandising, buying and managing inventory, and more.

The workshop is  co-sponsored by the American Booksellers Association and facilitated by Donna Paz Kaufman and Mark Kaufman of The Bookstore Training Group of Paz & Associates. ABA members are eligible for up to a $200 discount on tuition.

For details, visit PazBookBiz.com or call (800) 260-8605.