Bookselling

Cărturești Carusel, a bookshop in a historical building from Bucharest (Romania), built in 1860 as a bank. Its interior combines Baroque Revival architecture with modern design
Bookshop in Marburg (Hesse, Germany)
Interior of the bookshop from the Singer House (Saint Petersburg, Russia)

Bookselling is the commercial trading of books which is the retail and distribution end of the publishing process.[1]

People who engage in bookselling are called booksellers, bookdealers, bookpeople, bookmen, or bookwomen. The founding of libraries in c. 300 BC stimulated the energies of the Athenian booksellers.

  1. ^ Centre for Economics and Business Research, Bookselling Britain: The economic contributions to - and impacts on - the economy of the UK's bookselling sector: A report for tve Booksellers Association, p12