The Business of Bookselling

Welcome to The Business of Bookselling with BrocheAroe, a live-workshop and interview-style podcast about business and book culture. This podcast uses a diversity, equity, and inclusion lens, combined with triple-bottom line sustainability business principles, to offer actionable advice, bookselling basics, and deep dives into the book ecosystem.

Transcript: 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, working at one museum library, three publishing companies, and five bookstores, teaching English and Creative Writing, becoming a freelance editor, writer, bookstore consultant, and sensitivity reader, all while earning two degrees and a certificate, and finally opening my own independent bookstore, River Dog Book Co., in 2018. With all of that experience, I thought I knew what I was doing, but since then, I have learned so much more about business in general, the bookselling industry specifically, and I still have a lot of bookstore goals I’m working toward reaching in my future.

At some point during my bookselling journey, my commitment to cultivating community met my desire to share knowledge, and the idea for creating accessible and inclusive content about the world of bookselling was born. I want to help other people make their independent bookstore dreams come true in a way that recognizes that we all begin this journey at different places, with different resources, serving different communities, and with different goals in mind. There is no one right way of opening an independent bookstore, so I am here to facilitate the transfer of bookselling knowledge from people in the industry to people who want to become part of the industry, in a way that is accessible for everyone.

Join me and my equally book-obsessed and industry savvy friends as we explore the vast and varied ecosystem of the book industry, from the nuts and bolts of opening an independent bookstore to the creation of a book as a product worthy of selling in the first place! My guests will be experts in their field and newbies learning along the way, fellow booksellers and publishing executives, writers and illustrators, and other industry stakeholders and thought leaders you may never have heard of. What’s the one thing we all have in common? We’re all dedicated, in one way or another, to the sales pipeline of one very specific product: the book. Welcome to The Business of Bookselling.

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