The Business of Bookselling with BrocheAroe

BrocheAroe Fabian
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A podcast about the business of bookselling, for booksellers, by book people. Committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and triple bottom line sustainability business practices. Hosted by BrocheAroe Fabian, owner of River Dog Book Co.

Episodes

  1. Episode 201: Working with Publishers 101 – Opening a Publisher Account

    4H AGO

    Episode 201: Working with Publishers 101 – Opening a Publisher Account

    Intro: In this season, we’re going to explore working with publishers, why publisher-bookstore relationships are so important, and how they can become a mutually beneficial relationship, even as it is, by nature, a transactional one – they need us to sell their product – primarily books – and we need their primary product to sell […]

    38 min
  2. A Bookselling Glossary

    03/03/2025

    A Bookselling Glossary

    Intro: Welcome to the Business of Bookselling! In this podcast episode, I get to do my best impression of a dictionary and define some commonly used book industry terms that may or may not be familiar to you. If I don’t define something you’ve always wanted to know about or if your definition of a […]

    34 min
  3. Novel Model Bookstores

    01/21/2025

    Novel Model Bookstores

    To help support you on that bookstore dream journey, in this podcast episode, I’m going to try to describe some of the different types of novel model bookstores that exist so that as you consider what type of bookstore reality best fits your bookstore owning dream, even if you haven’t experienced one of these in person, hopefully hearing about them will provide some additional suggestions for how to turn that dream into a reality.

    31 min
  4. The First Five Business Things

    01/21/2025

    The First Five Business Things

    Once upon a time, someone had the brilliant idea to open a bookstore. For the purposes of this podcast episode, it’s not really all that important when and why and where someone else did that. The important part is when and why and where YOU want to open an independent bookstore.

    36 min
  5. The First Five Things

    01/21/2025

    The First Five Things

    It is a truth universally acknowledged that all cities, towns, and even neighborhoods are in need of an independent bookstore. And yet, there is no one single way to accomplish this. But, there are some universal truths about opening an independent bookstore, in America at least, that each new bookstore owner should acknowledge. And that is where this podcast episode comes in. Welcome to The First Five Things to do when starting to consider opening an independent bookstore.

    25 min
  6. The Business of Bookselling Trailer

    01/21/2025

    The Business of Bookselling Trailer

    My name is BrocheAroe Fabian, and I am a bookseller. For over 15 years, I have turned my love of reading into a book industry career. I want to help other people make their independent bookstore dreams come true.

    2 min
  • 6 Episodes

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A podcast about the business of bookselling, for booksellers, by book people. Committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and triple bottom line sustainability business practices. Hosted by BrocheAroe Fabian, owner of River Dog Book Co.

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