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Frontlist Buying Through Edelweiss
School Author Visits and Book Fairs
Special Orders, Pre-Orders, and Website Fulfillment
Establish Terms and Save Money (free to you from PBS Sponsor MVB)
Frontlist Buying Through Edelweiss
This class from Inventory Management is designed to help book buyers learn to improve discounts and margins by shifting frontlist buying directly to publishers using Edelweiss in conjunction with a publisher rep. It includes Edelweiss terminology, using markup catalogs, and how to create Edelweiss export rules.
Download Frontlist Buying Handout
School Author Visits and Book Fairs
School author visits and book fairs can be significant income streams when they are done well! This class from our Event Management Course walks you through the process of building relationships with schools, the many steps of bringing authors into schools, and the details, timelines, and buying strategies for successful in-school or in-store book fairs
No Handouts
Special Orders, Pre-Orders, and Web Orders
Taking, ordering, receiving, and selling special orders is vital to a healthy, thriving bookstore! This class from our Inventory Management Course will you build a solid system for processing special orders, pre-orders, and web orders in a way that is clear to staff and will get the books your customers want into their hands as quickly as possible.
Download Special Orders Handout
Establish Terms and Save Money
From a PBS sponsor MVB, this seminar will hep you learn more about how your store could be saving money by switching to terms with publishers and with Ingram.
Speakers include
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Jill Hendrix of MVB, former PBS Dean of Inventory Management
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Jason Rice of Ingram
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Emanuel Figueroa, Co-owner of Snug Books, Baltimore, MD
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Valerie Pierce of Sourcebooks
Download MVB Electronic Ordering Handout
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In her own words: Erin Chervenock of Village Books & Paper Dreams in Bellingham, WA discusses the power of PBS
Booksellers Say:
Audrey Beatty
River Bend Bookshop
The Basic Bookselling Certification Course is truly anything but "basic!" The material covered is comprehensive and the instructors were invaluable fountains of knowledge and experience. I've been a bookseller and shop manager for over three years--I both wished this course was available to me when I started AND I felt like I gained so much from the coursework even though I'm no longer brand new to the business! I couldn't recommend it more highly to anyone that is a frontline bookseller, regardless of the number of years under your belt.
Amani Jackson
The Ivy Bookshop
The Inventory Management class I took through PBS made me confident enough to take on a managerial role at my bookstore and introduced me to career booksellers from across the country. I hope more and more booksellers have the opportunity to take classes and open their minds to what a career in books can look like.