How Can PBS Help Your Store?

Are you:

Dreaming of opening a bookstore?

We offer two great tools for potential store owners:

Looking for help training staff?

We offer a special deal for bookstores - a full year's access to the Basic Bookselling course via Independent Study that can be used by all staffers. When you bring on new staff, our course is the best way to introduce them to the world of indie bookselling and the specific job of being a frontline bookseller.

Looking for support with specific issues?

Our ever-expanding Independent Study program offers stand-alone classes and bundles of classes built to solve specific problems in stores. Need a staff handbook? Want to improve your special orders program? Feeling lost in Edelweiss or Ingram? Would you love to have an all-encompassing plan for storms, floods, illness, or other emergencies?  We have answers for you!

Wanting to be better at your job?

Our core courses are each designed around one job in the bookstore:

Each course explores how these roles contribute to overall bookstore success and teaches the specific, involved, and often complex set of skills necessary to succeed and to grow. On each course's page you'll find the list of instructors and a sample syllabus to help you understand what we teach and the learning outcomes we expect.

Ready to take your store to the next level?

In year four, we're just beginning to build out our Bookstore Development offerings. In 2024 we introduced a new "Marketing, Development, & Storytelling Excellence" class, and more extended professional development options are coming.