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Also known as book-trade, book trade

thumb|250px|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.]] thumb|200px|Bookshop in Marburg ([[Hesse, Germany)]] thumb|200px|Interior of the bookshop from the Singer House ([[Saint Petersburg, Russia)]] Bookselling is the commercial trading of books, which is the retail and distribution end of the publishing process.

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Instance of
industry
Subclass of
retail
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Bookselling
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Category:Bookselling
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  • History
  • Modern era
  • See also
  • Notes and references
  • Further reading
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thumb|250px|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.]] thumb|200px|Bookshop in Marburg ([[Hesse, Germany)]] thumb|200px|Interior of the bookshop from the Singer House ([[Saint Petersburg, Russia)]] Bookselling is the commercial trading of books, which is the retail and distribution end of the publishing process.

People who engage in bookselling are called booksellers, bookdealers, book people, bookmen, or bookwomen.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “bookselling” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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