Bookseller

The bookseller generally works in a Librairie where it sells the books.

It receives the representatives of the publishers in order to take note of the innovations to come and to order them consequently (approximately 2000 to 3000 innovations per month). Then the bookseller takes delivery of the innovations (insertions of the corresponding cards in the management software of the store), and arrangement in the store (presentation on table, windows, proposed,…). He advises and informs the customer so that he finds the book which he seeks but can also make him discover new authors…

Qualities necessary

First of all the bookseller must like to read, to know his products, and consequently to advise his customers. He must follow the literary news to present the nouveautés.
In addition to the important literary aspect in this trade, a bookseller must above all be a good manager. Indeed, it is brought to manage a stock at the same time on the level of its quantity but more especially the level of its qualité.
An important data of the trade of bookseller is also to be an organizer culturel.
If you plan to become bookseller, it should be known that it is also a physical trade (the books arrive in paperboards and they do not go all alone), relational (the bookseller deals with customers very as much as books) and that high wages are not widespread in the profession.

Studies

There exist mainly two dies to become bookseller.

• a die of formation by the training near the National institute of Formation of the Bookstore makes it possible to prepare a CAPE of salesman specialized option Presse Bookstore Paper mill, recruitment being carried out in general on a level 3rd; a Professional Patent of bookseller, recruitment being carried out in general on a level Vat; and starting from the re-entry a 2006 professional License whose recruitment is carried out after a BP or a DUT/DEUG.
• an university course, plus general practitioner, leading to a HAD Information Communication, Métiers option of the Book and the inheritance .
• a new university, accessible branch after a BP or one HAD making it possible to lead to a Professional License exists since 2004, it makes it possible to form executives in bookstore.

Known booksellers

• the August 26th 1806, the bookseller of Nuremberg, Johann Philipp Palm was carried out with Braunau on Inn because it had propagated the writing Deutschland in seiner tiefen Erniedrigung ( Germany in its major humiliation )
• Pierre Roffet, bookseller and bookbinder of the 16th century
• Jacques Lacombe, bookseller and lawyer of the 18th century
• Andre-Charles Cailleau, publisher-bookseller of the 18th century
• Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, publisher-bookseller of the 18th century
• Pierre-François Ladvocat, publisher-bookseller of the 19th century
• Joseph Romanoff , publisher-bookseller of the XIX-e century

See too

• Bookstore
• Trade union of the French Bookstore
• the National institute of Formation of the Bookstore

External bonds

• the bookseller: gate of the book in Quebec

Category: Trade of the culture

Simple: Bookstore Zh-yue: 書局

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