{"id":104,"date":"2009-07-21T19:07:58","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T09:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2010-10-02T18:34:07","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T08:34:07","slug":"mail-order-business-specialising-in-books-on-tractors-earthmoving-equipment-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/mail-order-business-specialising-in-books-on-tractors-earthmoving-equipment-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Mail order business specialising in books on tractors, earthmoving equipment etc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just discovered <a title=\"Plough Book Sales website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ploughbooksales.com.au\/default.htm\">Plough Book Sales<\/a>, a Victorian online mail-order business that specialises in books on tractors, old engines, earthmoving equipment, steam engines and metal working. The sort of specialist books you&#8217;ll never find on A &amp; R or Dymocks shelves. Plough Book Sales also has a list of interesting links to related topics and book publishers. Stephen can be seen in person at vintage machinery rallies throughout Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>To me specialist businesses like these are the very best thing about the internet. Now online mail order businesses can be set up where there would never have been enough local customers to make such a specialised business viable, and operate profitably by selling to like-minded customers all over the world. Mailorder businesses have been around for more than a century but it is only the internet that has enabled customers to track down their specific field of interest, located anywhere in the world. Yet despite being global businesses, one of the very best features is that these concerns are run by passionate and very knowledgeable enthusiasts who are able to provide personal service, unlike disinterested franchise staff. Such business owners also usually enjoy meeting like-minded enthusiasts, who just happen to be customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just discovered Plough Book Sales, a Victorian online mail-order business that specialises in books on tractors, old engines, earthmoving equipment, steam engines and metal working. The sort of specialist books you&#8217;ll never find on A &amp; R or Dymocks shelves. Plough Book Sales also has a list of interesting links to related topics and book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":716,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}