CDL: Question from an Fine & Applied Arts Antiquarian Bookseller (summary response)

From: John P. Abbott <AbbottJP_at_appstate.edu>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 09:24:10 -0400
To: COLLDV-L_at_usc.edu
[original posting may be found in the list archives:
	http://serials.infomotions.com/colldv-l/archive/2008/200805/0100.html ]



Dear Colldv-l,

Some of your listers have been conscientiously helpful:

Thanks to all those who took trouble to reply to my enquiry about 
on-line catalogues and the etiquette of using emails and attachments 
to send them.

Three main points emerge.

First  to try not to send catalogues  to the "wrong " person,  people 
not already primed or ready to receive them .this can well case 
annoyance and be counter productive!

The second was to try to track down the "right " person.  This seems 
obvious, but several of you made the point that the number of people 
involved in selecting books is relatively few.

The third was a connfimation of my original position; that success in 
trying to sell unusual books depends on striking up a personal 
relationship with certain people and working with them.  There is no 
short cut to find these.


I have had only one suggestion about  Directories;/ Mailing Lists, 
though several make the point that most people guard their email 
addresses to ward of the kind of "spam" I am plotting;  though if 
anyone would like to see the kind of amterial I was offering in my 
attachment cataoglue plesase let me know  at david.batterham_at_virgin.net



Thanks, David Batterham, London, U.K.
Received on Thu May 22 2008 - 01:38:52 EDT