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Bookselling

Business of selling and dealing with books / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Bookselling is the commercial trading of books which is the retail and distribution end of the publishing process.

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Cărturești Carusel, a bookshop in a historical building from Bucharest (Romania), built in 1860 as a bank. Its interior combines Baroque Revival architecture with modern design
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Bookshop in Marburg (Hesse, Germany)
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Interior of the bookshop from the Singer House (Saint Petersburg, Russia)

People who engage in bookselling are called booksellers, bookdealers, bookpeople, bookmen, or bookwomen. The founding of libraries in c. 300 BC stimulated the energies of the Athenian booksellers.