Idea Exchange Busy With Talks of Potter Parties and More

Every week dozens of booksellers seek and share advice and information about bookselling and the book industry on BookWeb's Idea Exchange. Here, BTW presents a look at some of this week's topics -- with the hope that more booksellers will join in.

Among the topics that booksellers are discussing in the Bookseller-to-Bookseller Forum this week are:

• How to handle customer requests for titles that the store does not currently carry or had not planned on ordering in the near future;
• A continuing discussion regarding media mail;
• A back-and-forth on Moleskine notebooks;
• Planning Potter parties;
• Working with local schools; and
• A query regarding e-mail service for Macintosh.

In the Ask ABA forum there was a query on changing profile information. In Ask BookSense.com, there were inquiries regarding the Book Sense Gift Card Program and how to make the most out of a BookSense.com website.

The Idea Exchange Forums are open to ABA bookstore and provisional members only. (Booksellers who do not already have a BookWeb Account will need to create one.)