Internet Bookselling . While many ordinary high street bookshops supply books to libraries, there are a number of companies, without shop premises, which specialize in this work. As in wholesaling, most of the work in library selling has to do with order processing. They often employ trained librarians rather than booksellers for such crucial tasks as stock buying. Another special form of bookselling is practised by the publisher's representative or rep.
Reps call on bookshops to try to win orders for their companies' own books.
You can find vacancies for reps advertised in The Bookseller . In larger shops, there may be further staff grades - perhaps a.deputy manager between the manager and assistant manager. Different shops,of course, organize themselves in different ways and may well use different job titles. But you can expect to find something like the above arrangement forming at least the backbone of the staff structure in any bookshop you look at. All the information on this site is copyright material and may not be reproduced in any form without prior permission of the publishers.