Send us your ideas for developing superb events with Salt Cellars

We need your help. We’re busy developing ideas for taking our Salt Cellars programme forward, but we want to open that out to our authors and our friends.

Booksellers, and especially independent booksellers, are central to the future of Salt Cellars. We’re looking for ideas to develop Salt events in collaboration with [...]

July 3rd, 2010 | Category: Independent Booksellers, Salt Cellars (Birmingham), Salt Cellars (Cambridge), Salt Cellars (Edinburgh), Salt Cellars (London) | 2 comments | By

The Cover Factory limbers up for a forward challenge

We’ve got over 50 covers to design in the next four weeks, all part of a concerted move to reposition Salt as a trade publisher and to refocus our efforts to work with the best bookstores in the UK.

We’ve begun work and you can follow progress on Twitter, simply keep your eye on [...]

June 23rd, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: Independent Booksellers, Just One Book, Salt Confidential | 2 comments | By

How to link your bookshop’s blog to Twitter and Facebook for independent booksellers

Open up your preferred browser and go to your blog. Check you have an RSS feed available. In your browser you should be able to see an RSS symbol to the right of the URL of your blog. Click on that symbol and you should be redirected to the RSS feed, the Web [...]

May 20th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Independent Booksellers | One comment | By

Ten tips on using social media for independent booksellers

Following independent day at the Booksellers Association Book Industry Conference 2010, I thought I’d jot down some thoughts on using social media — this isn’t about selling eBooks, but about reaching customers and building relationships with customers on the Web.

Be yourself. People have relationships with people and not shops. Create profiles that [...]

May 17th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Independent Booksellers | 3 comments | By