by Emily Johnson Bookstores will be extinct by the end of the 20th century, they said. “This is a silly type of store to open nowadays. Retail’s dead.” Well, we’re still watching and waiting. I’m sticking with the stubborn holdouts who squinting,…
Author: Matthew Johnson
List of how book selling pays
List of how book selling pays The best customers in the world. Yes, you can take a check Reading, lots of reading. Knowledge is power You find out that you can have 28,923 books and still go to competitor because…
Does it pay to be a bookseller
Does it pay to be a bookseller? It’s a bit like asking if it pays to be a songwriter. The answer is, “it depends.” It certainly doesn’t pay to be a songwriter who only makes money producing their own music…
Donation boxes throughout Denver (video – 2 minutes)
Books about trees and tree care
My friends at ArborScape tree service were at the Colorado ISA’s tree climbing championships at Washington Park last weekend and it got me brainstorming about some great books about trees including caring for them, appreciating them and the pseudo-scientific books…
Four Years of Reusing Books and Making Hay
It’s been four since I found ten books on my perssoanl shelves, put em in a book and sent them off to a faraway Amazon fulfillment center. We’ve succeeded in recycling over 500,000 books and made some friends along the…
Denver Book Recycling Suspends Donations (Update)
Updated June 8, 2017 – Denver Book Recycling, a book recycling company in Denver metro, closed it’s doors and took down it’s website recently. It would seem that they are no longer in business. Repeated calls to the the company were…
New Way to Donate Video Games in Denver
There are some great places to donate video games for charity. PS1, PS2 and vintage video games of all sorts, from Atari to ColecoVision, to Nintendo 64 and Wii games are always popular. http://childsplaycharity.org/ Book Driver is starting a video game…
Denver Author Elena Torres Discusses Her First Novel.
March 4th, 2017 Denver, Colo. – Like many first-time novelists, Elena Torres doubted whether her work was worth publishing. Whether anyone would care to read it. Whether it was good enough to finish. In the end, she did finish it and…
How the book donation program works (video)
Here is a short video with Matt, on the road, picking up book donations. Here is a quick video explanation of how it all goes. If you have books to donate, you can request a pickup here.