Open an independent bookstore

I twisted up my ankle pretty bad a few weeks ago. It was so slow to heal I went to two bone doctors, one said it was a hairline fracture and I needed a cast. The other said it was just a grade two sprain and all I need to do is wear a brace for the next two weeks. It kinda sucks and I think I made things worse by stomping about on my ankle when it first happened, ignoring the pain. Oh well. That combined with some family issues has me delaying the soft opening of Texture to July 18th. It’s still gonna rock! There is just still so much to do and I don’t want to be hobbling around trying to get everything ready, and not being able to be up and about like I want to.

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I have no idea where to start so I start here! Help, advise or warnings about opening a bookstore for german books in the lovely english city of Oxford (since I am native German and Germans beeing the biggest non-english student community in Oxford) is heartly appreciated!

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For a long time, I have dreamed of owning and operating my own little dusty bookstore…I live in a little town, and the bookstores here are few and far between. I think it would do well in my area, but sadly :( I am lost on how to get started…

Any ideas, or help would be greatly appreciated :)

Don’t know much about opening my own business, but just love books and have been dreaming about having my own cosy bookstore for all my life!

Wow it’s been forever since I updated on 43things!! I am still working on this goal, it took me a long time but it is finally coming together. I open mid-June! here are a few pics of my storefront in construction, more on my blog http://www.mspmedia.net/texture.html

The owner of the storefront I’m renting just gave me some story about deciding to sell the building all of a sudden, what in the underworld? He totally refunded my deposit including money for stuff I bought for the renovation, but I am devastated. I was planning to open next month part-time and then have a full scale launch in December. Now I have to start all over again with finding a place and getting organized there and all. Good thing I had yet to get business cards printed up with the address, that was something I planned to do this week. ha.

I will not give up on this goal, I will find a great storefront, and I will make this happen. I feel sad but that will pass, I’m not going to get all bent out of shape about this because it’s just not that big a deal. I just need to find another storefront, keep it moving. Your well-wishes will be appreciated though!

I wanted to post pics of the renovation process but I lost them during an upload from my phone. It’s just as well, it’s taking forever for me to get this done. Part of me wishes I had the money to hire people to do this for me but part of me is so happy to be able to do this; to have this great opportunity at seizing my dream, I am just thrilled. My friend Tony is going part-time at his job and said he’d help me with the store, and so is my friend Angela.

I’m working a full-time job, I’m telecommuting from home which is great! because I can get the kids off to school and be home when they get done. I love the job and plan to work it for a while because the store is going to be in the red for a few years. But it is full-time and basically I just have a few hours during the morning to work on store stuff, and one weekend day. My husband works full-time too, he’s a teacher, and doesn’t have a lot of time during the week to help out. I have every confidence though, it will all work out!

I won’t be able to do any work on the store until this Saturday, I will definitely take more pics and post them.

You have to try to do the thing you really want to do in life.

I was walking down the street in Downtown Mesa Arizona taking pictures for a photography class at school when I decided that I wanted to buy a small shop like most of the stores are there and open my own small bookstore. However I am planning on moving out of Arizona once I graduate because I cant take the dry heat. Any recommendations on a good place to look at for opening a small bookstore?