hi this is and when greg go from seeing your perspective today we decided that we would come and visit a bookshop since the weather man provided us with the weather that we have and it's raining we thought maybe a good idea to come and visit the shop and  perhaps take home a book and read and curl up by the fireplace and just have a good time with your book three years ago ok and how long have you been well you've been the owner of them yes for that long what are your hours i am as are ten thirty until five thirty tuesday and wednesday ten thirty until your books the books are priced fifty percent off of the cover unless otherwise smart and some of the books are marked differently inside some of the older books that are out of print have a price of ninety five cents  fifty cents so we've priced them to bring them into line with today's market that people can afford and that they are going to order yes ok how many books are in the store elizabeth george c grafton who is mystery writer cornwell and george wright thrillers they're a little bit more gory than just a straight old mystery agatha christie and mystery you know so do you have children's books also yes i do you do you know if i do go show section for the children yes we do and it's a touch section the children are permitted to go in and pick up their book and put it back not always where they got it but that's ok i want them to be able to touch the books too to be with the books and when they make a decision they're pretty sure what they want well i know chill child's book but i say that's a children's section and i get when we're in maine a children's section for the children i also have a few toys back there for the younger ones who can't read yet and they like coming in and playing and talking print romance books from the turn of the century in the late one thousand nine hundred so what do you mean by out of print that means that they were printed years and years ago and that they're not being printed in the present by any publisher the books a lot of the out print books as i said were printed in the eighteen hundreds in early nineteen hundreds and there are many many collectors are around the country who collect only that have been written we call them price guides and i try to price my books oh a few dollars underneath the price guides price because i want them to be affordable so where people who call me and asked me to go to their home to look at their libraries perhaps they're moving or they're downsizing and they don't have space for all the books that they have in their library or someone who's passed away and they want to distribute the books i also do appraisals and i do an appraisal for a collection i don't buy them that just isn't fair to to the person it's one or the other  more to a book shop than what i thought i just think is what do you do with the books that you can't use now i'm sure there are some that you can't use well the book you're right there are quite a few books that i can't use and what i do i donate them i don't need them to shelters in pittsburgh i also didn't donate them to nonprofit causes such is all the peters township community day i contributed a few books to them and they will get those away on the on community day when you have a booth up but today i wish i could i don't have anyone to watch the store that there i would love to do attractive to your customers i think first and foremost it's the price my prices are as i said fifty percent off of the book book cover price and with the price of books going sky high in the past year and a half and going even higher it it's a good place for people who enjoy reading but really don't want to put that kind of money for a brand new book if a customer brings books into the shop and i need them then i give them credit based on again on the cover price of their book and then when they purchase books id doc that from their purchase price oh yes that's that's how the free books are how they get the free books and they get the free books by purchasing books here and when they have purchased fifty dollars worth of books then they do get a five dollar book free that there is two ways of saving their three actually they can save by the price of the book they can save by bringing books in for trade and they can also save by buying for every fifty dollars that they purchase they get a free book so there's a three way savings for house tumours and for people who enjoy reading and read a lot it does become rather expensive purchasing their books let's say at one of the major chain major book chains but they save a lot of money by coming here and also i give them free coffee and that's must me i have to really get into it you know just every bit of the book but i'm like you yes i do do it makes me awhile you ok now here's a good when what is your niche market niche my dense market yeah that's my niche market is probably romance over fifty i'd say probably sixty percent of my customers read romance and then the next  looking back at the mysteries probably the next most popular would be the mysteries and thrillers but the niche is is the room means it's the back then but it's you mean the most popular or something of the most you think your customers enjoy about the store that's a good one i have thing joy the prices and i've been told they enjoy just coming in and i try to make everyone feel welcome when they come through have me when i came here and so i always look so good oh i didn't know there were so many books right if you and they enjoy i think coming in and some in just talking sometimes just talking about problems that they might have and everything that goes on in the store stays in the store and i people know that trust me in that and i think they enjoy coming in just just to visit sometime you know to do sometimes moving buy wine or buy to get one free side and i mean i saw that if i move it each day throughout the store and the customers know that they you know kind of look forward which and his book places you will go it's just a wonderful book for people of any age i notice that it's on the bestseller list this past week in the reason probably is because of graduation it makes a wonderful graduation and i do like elizabeth george and i do like there's just so many each day as i said each book that i read because my favorite  and then i have books that i like because of the cover i have pretty books big and those are those are books that have our leather bindings and they're there with the bindings are really pretty and so i like books not only to look but all said every so yeah i saw you do keep a bestsellers list for customers to look at yes it comes in handy a lot of the customers do you look at it and check to see what's on the bestsellers list and you do have the bestsellers here them i have a lot of them i don't have all of them but i do order new books for customers if they want a new book i can order that for them at a twenty percent discount and that way they can you know save a little bit of money well that too we had your favorite author or no favorite book or one of my favorite books it's a cynthia freeman come pour the wine was one of my favorites i just read a gracious new book the street laurier that was i thought one of his best books each one that i've read because i really did i really enjoyed that you know a lot of people think that was his best book but now he's come up with something better this i think so i think the street lawyers we are going to and yes i have i recommended it's not in paperback yet it just came out last