Despite the fact that the Internet today replaces most people reading newspapers and magazines, "paper" books are not losing their popularity. The book business is a lucrative business. In addition, books are not perishable goods and do not require special storage conditions.
Instructions
Step 1
Based on your financial capabilities, decide: will you rent a retail space or buy? Also, how much retail space can you afford? Undoubtedly, renting will be cheaper than buying, especially when it comes to an elite area or city center. The optimal area of the future book showroom will be 80-120 m². The sanitary and epidemiological service is obliged to check your premises for compliance with the required standards, as well as the fire inspection.
Step 2
Take care of buying book shelves that are comfortable for the buyer. Shelves with books located at a height of more than 2.5 meters will be inaccessible to the buyer who wants to familiarize himself with the content of the book he is interested in. Even if a special ladder is available in the store, a person will not demand to bring it every time he is attracted by a beautiful book cover. Therefore, purchase racks, the height of which will not exceed 2 m 30 cm.
Step 3
Sign contracts with publishers and stationery suppliers. In addition to books, pens, pencils, notebooks and notepads are selling well in the bookstore. Before signing the papers you are interested in, agree on the form of payment in advance. Typically, publishing houses offer two options: payment for books upon shipment to your store, or a deferral of payment until the full sale of the delivered print run.
Step 4
Recruit and train service personnel for your store. Sellers in a bookstore must themselves be addicted to reading, only then will they be able to fully advise buyers on issues of interest to them. It is desirable that a fantasy fan works in the science fiction department, and a fan of Chekhov and Tolstoy in the classical literature department. If a person loves his job, he will be able to attract the attention of the buyer.
