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bookseller

[ book-sel-er ]

noun

  1. the owner or proprietor of a bookstore.


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Other Words From

  • bookselling noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of bookseller1

First recorded in 1520–30; book + seller
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Example Sentences

Under Bezos’s stewardship, Amazon evolved from an upstart online bookseller into one of the world’s most popular Internet marketplaces able to quickly deliver a vast catalogue of products and services.

Jassy has long been viewed as a potential successor to Bezos, despite not being part of Amazon’s retail operations, the company’s core business since its launch as an online bookseller in 1995.

From Quartz

To try to get to the bottom of this, Feingold and Svorenčík undertook an astonishingly systematic and exhaustive preliminary survey spanning some 27 countries and their libraries, private owners, and booksellers.

It was also selling well at competing bookseller Barnes & Noble, where it ranked second among the company’s top 100 titles.

From Quartz

The Hard Tomorrow is available from its publisher, Drawn & Quarterly, through Bookshop, and through your local bookseller.

From Vox

The following month Suzuki returned with Major Yoshimi Taniguchi, by then a bookseller.

The onetime bookseller now dominates retail across the market.

I work as a bookseller, so I have a dozen of these in my back pocket at all times.

Bookseller Roxanne Coady has worried about her son for 21 years.

As a bookseller I naturally think the solution to everything is books.

He was a bookseller, but better known as a translator of the German contributor to the Gentleman's Magazine, &c.

Joseph Towers died; a printer, bookseller, and afterwards a preacher with the title of LL.

One bookseller's shop, where books are extravagantly dear, exists in the low town, and one other in the ascent to the upper.

There is not one bookseller in Pernambuco, and the population of its different parishes amounts to 70,000 souls!

Andrew Millar, the most distinguished bookseller of his times, died in London.

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