From time to time I think of something that might be kind of neat to mention in a blog post that’s about my bookstore, but I’ve never had the ambition to start one before. (I accidentally made two other posts at some point. One was the hours of the store, and the other was a blog post I meant to put on my personal blog but instead put on here by mistake. It did surprisingly well lol.)
Anyway, as a bookmaker and a bookseller, I figured a great way to officially incorporate a blog into my website would be to tell you why I do the things I do. And I will say, it was never to make money.
For the most part, writers write not to make money but to make noise. To get a message out there. And, like it or not, booksellers sell for much the same reason. It gives me great joy to help local authors, for instance, get their words out to the public. It also gives me joy to help a reader find the perfect book, whether it’s a local author or a used book.
So, take it from me, a bookseller, a bookmaker, a writer, a former journalist and librarian, and a lifelong reader: Books are not meant for profit. Maybe you’ll get lucky and make money (it happens), but probably you’ll just scrape by, whether it’s as a bookmaker or a bookseller.
If you’re doing it for the right reasons, you won’t care.
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