The Diary of a Bookseller

FRIDAY, 9 MAY

Online orders: 2

Books found: 2

A customer was waiting at the door with two boxes of books when I opened the shop this morning, all Penguins, and mostly green crime editions, which are by far the most sellable. Nicky appeared ten minutes after I had bought them for £60 and asked me how much I had paid for them. I asked her to guess, so she rifled through them and said £20.

Foodie Friday’s treat this week was an out-of-date Mr Kipling’s Battenberg cake from the Morrisons skip. We spent the day pricing up the Penguins and putting them on the shelves and arguing about what consideration we should give to Amazon prices when we are deciding how much to sell something for in the shop. Nicky is all for being cheaper than Amazon, but I believe that most customers understand that our prices can’t always undercut the lowest on Amazon because of our overheads.

Till total £192

14 customers