booksellers
Shop owners, novels
Booksellers are people or businesses that sell books.
The term covers independent shop owners, major retail chains, and online vendors alike.
A bookseller may specialize in rare volumes, used books, or new releases: The bookseller recommended a first edition.
The trade itself is sometimes called bookselling.
Extended prose fiction
- fictionImagined narrative work
- nonfictionLiterature about real events
- genresCategories of creative work
- classicsWorks of lasting value
poetry · prose · narrative · authors · biography · memoir · anthology · collections
Company releasing books
- imprintsMarks made by pressing
- editorialPublication's official viewpoint article
- manuscriptsHandwritten or typed originals
- hardcoverRigid-bound book format
paperback · editions · print · bestsellers · backlist · frontlist · remainders · galleys
One who sells goods
- retailSales to end users
- tradeExchange of commodities
- marketplaceVenue for commerce
- salesRevenue from goods moved
inventory · merchandise · wholesale · consignment · distribution · stockist · reseller · dealer
Scholar of old artifacts
- rareSeldom found or seen
- collectibleObject worth amassing
- signedWrote one's name on
- vintageQuality from past eras
out-of-print · ephemera · incunabula · appraisal · provenance · condition · restoration · auction
Educational reference volumes
- referenceDirecting attention elsewhere
- scholarlyMarked by serious learning
- curriculumEducational program's content plan
- researchSystematic fact-finding effort
university · coursebooks · journals · monographs · dissertations · educational · manuals · encyclopedia
novels
Extended prose fiction
- fictionImagined narrative work
- nonfictionLiterature about real events
- genresCategories of creative work
classics · poetry · prose · narrative · authors · biography · memoir · anthology · collections · drama
publisher
Company releasing books
- imprintsMarks made by pressing
- editorialPublication's official viewpoint article
- manuscriptsHandwritten or typed originals
hardcover · paperback · editions · print · bestsellers · backlist · frontlist · remainders · galleys · proofs
vendor
One who sells goods
- retailSales to end users
- tradeExchange of commodities
- marketplaceVenue for commerce
sales · inventory · merchandise · wholesale · consignment · distribution · stockist · reseller · dealer · secondhand
antiquarian
Scholar of old artifacts
- rareSeldom found or seen
- collectibleObject worth amassing
- signedWrote one's name on
vintage · out-of-print · ephemera · incunabula · appraisal · provenance · condition · restoration · auction · estate
textbooks
Educational reference volumes
- referenceDirecting attention elsewhere
- scholarlyMarked by serious learning
- curriculumEducational program's content plan
research · university · coursebooks · journals · monographs · dissertations · educational · manuals · encyclopedia · archives
- publishingpublishers, editors, editor, publishing house, publications
- bookstorescheckout, cash register, aisles, storefront, genres
- book tradepublisher, publishing house, distributors, dealers, wholesalers
- printing historyprinting press, Gutenberg, typographers, Gutenberg press, block printing
- book historycolophon, edition, folio, frontispiece, incunabula
- literary worldauthors, writers, poets, novelists, literary agents
booksellerslibrarians
Collection curators at lending institutions
libraries · lending libraries · free libraries · public libraries · readers
booksellerscustomers
People who purchase goods
publishers · book collectors · authors · writers · censors