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Show What I Should Do if I Were About To Enter the Book Business r KHKOKeiir n. km'hkr, ftm-emr? nt fc Nactanuil Aarlalloa f Hok Iw b I latere. An alert minrl, s keen Interest In sll knowledge and a contagious enthusl-am enthusl-am will help to make book a.. Ulnar a f.ne carf-er for a young man or woman. A good high school education ! hereunto; a gnertl college course, an advantage; I he background of a ltorn life where hooks enter naturally tuto the discussions and conversations of all Is the tt of assets. No profession could he me Interesting. Interest-ing. All that the iiaM has to sav to thm present and all that the present hs to av or record for Itself pfle through the hands of the booksclUrs and Is guided to tha right bands. The scnpf of the Infurmellun th-'.t the book Heller ran put to good use Is rYentendmis. No on can completely meet the nerd Home dnv ther vlll he a college course on ooksellli,g. a cc-mbin-ttton of courses on books nd on business. Today the best way to J learn the practical problems of selling i books la to work In the best booksturu thst has an opening. Absorb thre the lore of books, buying buy-ing method, publishers' nsmes and charact eristics, diioinv and promotion methods, office detail! snd all that ' I there to see or to understand and road all the tlsae. Reading now ought to fill 'n all the gapa left by earlier book ramble. Hsd new books, of course, but between 1ft I years of age and 25 the bookseller 1 should havs swung through hundreda of established books from all ages and countries and In all branches of wilt-l'ir. wilt-l'ir. The background for Information and judgment must be latd early. Study all phases of current book out put. rend trade papers and stuny reviewing re-viewing mediums. Study a foreign Inn-g Inn-g nags or keep up tha one you have 1 Kn't forget that fiction snd other creative literature are not the onlv important im-portant uses of print. The bookseller must distribute understanding bool.a on science, technology, agriculture, re. Mglon, sconomU'S, cookery and hat ret. Thre Is no trick way to eel! books. I Know hooks, convey ytfur ent huslsnns, i s rve una esrylngly. I Pave money In order tn be part of the established firm or owner of a new enterprise. No retail field offers to-dav to-dav better chancea for expansion. w book ho its are needed, manv cities re unprovi-ted with Intelligent book service ser-vice The bookselisr of tomorrow will be accented h one of the upbulldlrg fore In lh community. As such be will find a competence far his family and food for his spirit. |