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bookselling

business of selling and dealing with books
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bookselling

Summary

bookselling is an industry[1]. bookselling draws 565 Wikipedia views per month (industry category, ranking #78 of 199).[2]

Key Facts

  • bookselling's instance of is recorded as industry[3].
  • bookselling is a type of retail[4].
  • bookselling's Commons category is recorded as Bookselling[5].
  • bookselling's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Bookselling[6].
  • bookselling's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[7].
  • bookselling's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[8].
  • bookselling's practiced by is recorded as bookseller[9].
  • bookselling's practiced by is recorded as itinerant bookseller[10].

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Definition and Type

bookselling's instance of is recorded as industry[3]. bookselling is a type of retail[4].

Why It Matters

bookselling draws 565 Wikipedia views per month (industry category, ranking #78 of 199).[2] bookselling has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] bookselling is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

Related Entities

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). bookselling. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/bookselling
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_bookselling_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{bookselling}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/bookselling}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 24d ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0008125-knizni-obchod
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0008125-knizni-obchod, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259499|batch #259499]]"
  2. 5w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → industry
    Practiced by → bookseller, itinerant bookseller
    Subclass of → —
    Aliases → —
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007283235905171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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