We are dedicated to your success…
Since 1992, the Bookstore Training and Consulting Group of Paz & Associates has been devoted to helping people who’ve had a dream of owning their own bookstore.
We’ve introduced prospective owners to the book industry, provided intensive training and individual consulting to hundreds of independent booksellers and conducted workshops and seminars for bookstore associations around the globe.The experience and advice you receive is based on our broad reach in retail bookselling.
We’ve worked with independent bookstores of all sizes and specialties with different community dynamics and competitive challenges. We love a challenge and thrive on helping develop each new bookstore to become a champion of reading and lifelong learning.
Paz & Associates is a partner of the American Booksellers Association, exclusively providing training to those entering retail bookselling. Publishers Weekly has relied on us since 1994 to chair the Bookseller of the Year Award, a project that allows us to identify and celebrate the best in bookselling.
[...] they love community, they love to connect with others. Their passion is inspiring and affects each and every thing they do. My store is so much stronger and well-rooted in the community because of their encouragement and [...]