Advice from FBN for Feminist Bookstores

Advice from FBN for feminist bookstores.

- Vol 1 No 8 p 3 Doing Used Books
- Vol 1 No 9/10 p 14-15 Doing Remainders
- Vol 2 No 1 p 11 Used Books. . . Recycled Again
- Vol 2 No 2 p 9-11 (responses 12-14) Basis of Unity: Developing a Coalition Policy, Success and Process
- Vol 2 No 3 p 7-8 Revenge (I mean “returns.”)
- Vol 4 No 1 p 7 Amazon Bookstore Celebrates Her Tenth Year
- Vol 4 No 2 p 4-6 The Women’s Bookstore letter
- Vol 4 No 3 p 1-3 Organizing for Survival
- Vol 4 No 3 p 10 Women’s Bookstores Workshop
- Vol 4 No 5 p 5-6 Charis letter/Statement of Purpose
- Vol 4 No 6 p 7-8 Overstock Sale vs Returns
- Vol 5 No 1 p 8 Training and Skills Sharing
- Vol 5 No 4 p 5 Staffing
- Vol 5 No 4 p 7-8 Burn-Out
- Vol 6 No 1 p 14 Conference & Workshop Sales
- Vol 6 No 2 p 8 Womanbooks Work Evaluation
- Vol 7 No 1 p 17-23 Economics for Health and Survival (reprinted in Vol 9 No 6/Vol 10 No 1, the article most often requested for reprint by booksellers)
- Vol 7 No 2 p 17-23 Report from Feminist Bookstore Meeting
- Vol 7 No 2 p 25-26 Notes on Marketing
- Vol 8 No 2/3 p 26-28 Selling Remainders Ideas and Experience
- Vol 9 No 6/Vol 10 No 1 p 30-31 But What Do You Do All Day Dear? (reprinted from Vol 3 No 4)
- Vol 9 No 6/Vol 10 No 1 p 35-51 Bookstore Profile A Room of One’s Own Sandi Torkildson Interview
- Vol 10 No 2 p 19-20 Alaska Women’s Bookstore
- Vol 10 No 2 p 39-42 Moving Cards: A Dynamic Part of Bookstore Sales
- Vol 10 No 3 p 6-15, 80 Touring Western Canadian Feminist Bookstores
- Vol 10 No 4 p 14-18, 88 Marketing Women’s Studies Books
- Vol 10 No 4 p 34-39 Food For Thought A Bookstore Profile
- Vol 11 No 1 p 15-16 Selling Poetry in Feminist Bookstores
- Vol 11 No 1 p 18-30 Red & Black Books: Flourishing at Last
- Vol 11 No 2 p 13 Selling Sidelines
- Vol 11 No 5 p 9-10 Artemys: Running the Feminist Bookstore in Belgium
- Vol 11 No 5 p 34 On the Move: A Mobile Bookstore
- Vol 12 No 2 p 26 Staff Action to Improve Sales
- Vol 12 No 4 p 23-24, 94 Buying from the University Presses
- Vol 12 No 5 p 19-22 Stocking & Selling Periodicals
- Vol 12 No 5 p 34, 51 Sisterspirit
- Vol 12 No 5 p 39-45 Saga Librería de la mujer Interview Susana Sommer
- Vol 13 No 1 p 19-25 Some Beginnings: An Interview with Judy Grahn
- Vol 13 No 1 p 45-46 Common Woman Books Becoming Strong
- Vol 13 No 2 p 27-33 The Feminist Bookstores Day ABA Las Vegas
- 1990 Summer Supplement p 5-6 Selling Sidelines: Jewelry Adds Interest and Income
- 1990 Summer Supplement p 52 On Being A Feminist Employer
- 1990 Summer Supplement p 53-61 Some Beginnings: An Interview with Judy Grahn Part 2
- Vol 13 No 3 p 21 Taking Care of Business: Inventory
- Vol 13 No 3 p 35-43 Some Beginnings: An Interview with Judy Grahn Part 3
- Vol 13 No 4 p 25-26 Bookstore Profile: The Woman’s Word
- Vol 13 No 4 p 57-65 Past and Present: Running the Feminist Bookstores in Spain
- Vol 13 No 5 p 23-24, 75 Taking Care of Business: Honoring Our Work, Honoring Ourselves
- Vol 13 No 6 p 19-21 Paradigm Women’s Bookstore
- Vol 13 No 6 p 25-29 Taking Care of Business: Memberships
- Vol 14 No 1 p 15-21 Anatomy of A Bankruptcy
- Vol 14 No 1 p 23-36 Bookstore Profile: Doing It In Wyoming
- Vol 14 No 2 p 19 Taking Care of Business: Store Security
- Vol 14 No 2 p 27-29 Ideas, Innovations and Thorny Problems; Highlights from Financial Workshop
- Vol 14 No 3 p 19-20 Taking Care of Business: Bookseller Burnout and Beyond
- Vol 14 No 4 p 18, 40 Taking Care of Business: Why Did I Start It?
- Vol 14 No 5 p 29-30 Setting Up a Lesbian and Gay Section in a University Bookstore
- Vol 14 No 5 p 35-37 Buying University Press Books for Your Store
- Vol 14 No 5 p 55, 58 Going with the Cash Flow
- Vol 14 No 6 p 27-28 Novel Promotions
- Vol 15 No 1 p 35-36, 122 Meristem Bookstore
- Vol 15 No 1 p 37-39 Store Newsletters: Do They Really Work?
- Vol 15 No 1 p 41-42 Buying & Selling Used Books
- Vol 15 No 2 p 24-25 Feminist Bookstores Day
- 1992 Sidelines p 13-15 10 Elements of Great Design
- Vol 15 No 3 p 31-33 Taking Care of Business: Stealing from the Bookstores
- Vol 15 No 4 p 29-33 Selling Textbooks
- Vol 15 No 4 p 49-51 Taking Care of Business: Press Releases
- Vol 15 No 4 p 53-54 Store Newsletters: Starting from Scratch
- Vol 15 No 4 p 55 Your Best Question for Interviewing Potential Staff
- Vol 15 No 4 p 56 Staff Evaluations
- Vol 15 No 5 p 27-29 Taking Care of Business: Maintaining a Successful Children’s Section
- Vol 15 No 5 p 56-58 Women’s Bookstores in the Netherlands
- Vol 15 No 5 p 59-62 Store Newsletters II: Getting the Word Out
- Vol 15 No 5 p 63-64 How to Use Your Local Newspaper to Promote Your Bookstore
- Vol 15 No 6 p 29-30 Bookstore Profile: Textures
- Vol 16 No 1 p 37-38 Traveling Sales: The Book Garden Bookmobile
- Vol 16 No 1 p 39-40 Strategic Planning
- Vol 16 No 1 p 43-44 Taking Care of Business: Confronting Unsafe Situations
- 1993 Sidelines Issue p 13-17 Marketing Strategies: Selling Women’s Music
- Vol 16 No 2 p 23-25 Taking Care of Business: Marketing to Young Feminists
- Vol 16 No 3 p 47-51 Time Management: Ideas from Experience
- Vol 16 No 3 p 57-59 The Alaska Women’s Bookstore
- Vol 16 No 6 p 29 Taking Care of Business: Advertising
- Vol 17 No 1 p 27-32 Charis Books
- Vol 17 No 2 p 27-30 The Feminist Bookstore Network Conference
- Vol 17 No 2 p 31-32 Taking Care of Business: Frugality Strategies
- Vol 17 No 2 p 35-36, 56 Organizing Book Groups
- 1994 Sidelines p 15-18 Selling Safe Sex Products and Sex Toys
- Vol 17 No 3 p 25-31 Touring Australian Feminist Bookstores
- Vol 17 No 4 p 27-29 What Really Makes a Good Book Signing?
- Vol 17 No 5 p 59-61 The Importance of Satisfying and Maintaining Your Customers
- Vol 17 No 6 p 37-39, 60 Taking Care of Business: Selling Sex Toys & Vibrators
- Vol 18 No 3 p 29 Taking Care of Business: Thriving Amazon
- Vol 18 No 4 p 25-30 Women: Amazon Turns 25!
- Vol 18 No 4 p 35-38 Sidelines: Holding the Integrity of Your Store
- Vol 18 No 5 p 17-22 Fem Books: The First Chinese-Language Feminist Bookstore
- Vol 18 No 5 p 55-56 Sidelines: Incense and Candles
- Vol 18 No 6 p 33-35 Recycling Women’s Books
- Vol 18 No 6 p 37-40 Taking Care of Business: Staying Solvent
- Vol 19 No 1 p 21-23 Amazon Bookstore: Literacy Skills for Women
- Vol 19 No 1 p 25-30 Profile: Mother Kali’s
- Vol 19 No 1 p 53-55 Sidelines: Greeting Cards
- Vol 19 No 2 p 55-57 Working with Local Craftswomen
- Vol 19 No 4 p 15-17 Africa’s First Feminist Bookstore: Binti Legacy
- Vol 20 No 5/6 p 5-6 Honoring Other Community Stores
- Vol 20 No 5/6 p 8-9 Sisterspace: An African American Women’s Bookstore
- Vol 21 No 2 p 55-58 The Little Zine That Could
- Vol 21 No 3 p 29-30 Bookstore Programs for Girls & Young Feminists
- Vol 21 No 3 p 31-32 Move Your Newsstand from the Mundane to the Extraordinary
- Vol 21 No 5 p 23-27 Profile: Shades of Sienna: African-American Children’s Books

Compiled by Chloe Berger. July 2023.