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Bookselling
Business of selling and dealing with books / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Bookstore" and "Bookseller" redirect here. For the British magazine, see The Bookseller. For the Roald Dahl short story, see The Bookseller (short story). For the publisher, see The Quarto Group. For the booking shops dealing in betting and gambling, see Bookmaker.
"Bookshop" redirects here. For other uses, see Bookshop (disambiguation).
Bookselling is the commercial trading of books which is the retail and distribution end of the publishing process.[1]
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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.