SOME PROBLEMS OF BOOKSELLING

Abstract

A bookseller's function is to find and to supply to his customers any book from anywhere in the world. If he is also a subscription agent, then he must perform the same service with periodicals. He may be asked to supply any book, from that everlasting bestseller the Bible, now available in up to five hundred versions, editions, sizes, and colours (and most customers try to see all five hundred before they make up their minds) to A critical review of the world literature on the lepidopterous stalk borers of tropical graminaceous crops—from Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac to Die Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften in Einzeldarstellungen‐Band 81‐from Nature, for which we have several hundred subscriptions, to Archiv für Molluskenkunde, for which we have one.

Citation

BLACKWELL, J. (1962), "SOME PROBLEMS OF BOOKSELLING", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 14 No. 3, pp. 57-66. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb049859