New Additions It’s been a while since we last added something new to the blog but it has been a pretty hectic few months ferrying children to school and University, as well as re-organising our stock and storage facilities. On-line sales remain very strong as we add new additions on a?regular?basis, with around half of …
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Mar 29
Welsh Language Books
Welsh Language Books Being right next to the Welsh border we often find a number of Welsh Language Books in the collections we acquire, and, occasionally, we are offered whole Welsh Language collections. Inevitably, given the strong Chapel tradition across the border, a number of these books have a religious flavour but it is surprising …
Nov 30
Music
We’re one of the few secondhand booksellers left that also has a large selection of sheet music and music-related titles in stock. Music sells steadily but slowly online, however, in the shop it sells strongly, with a number of regular customers buying several items at a time. Some people collect sheet music for the artwork, …
Nov 29
Rudeness!
Rudeness. Well I guess you have to expect is occasionally when you’re dealing with the public and I know there’s an English obsession with ‘Please’ and ‘Than-you’ – common courtesies that seem to have become increasingly eroded in this text-and-internet age. But what I’m really talking about is deliberate rudeness. To your face. From people …
Sep 17
Hall of Books – site refresh and the HoBlog!
Hall of Books – HoBlog and refresh Our original website – www.hallofbooks.com – was developed over a year ago. We used the Chrislands off-the-shelf hosted e-commerce package to get us started and to help us learn the ropes regarding online selling. This approach has been very effective and we have sold a wide range of …