Challenges of Running an eCommerce Business from Albania
This is the fifth year since my business partner, Gjergj, and I started what has now become the premier online Albanian bookstore – ShtepiaeLibrit.com (Albanian House of Books). Still, we are faced with the ever present challenge of conveying to our local and international customers our reliability and trustworthiness as an Albanian business! In fact, [...]
Soon to Open My Bookstore in Tirana
If you’ve read my last post, or been following this blog for some time, then you should be aware that I run a personal business selling Albanian books online called ShtepiaeLibrit.com. For a long time, I and my business partner have been desiring to have a place of our own (a physical bookstore, besides the online store) [...]
A New Start for Me
About a month ago I left my job of almost five years as a Communications Officer for a major institution to start a new path for myself. The decision had been hanging in my mind for a long time. Almost since I finished school and returned to my home country I had been waiting to [...]
Discover the Albanian Language and Dialects with Robert Elsie
If you are Albanian or someone working on learning the Albanian language then I would encourage you to delve a little deeper into understanding the roots and the development of this ancient language. To help you with this process, out of the many different sources out there I would direct you to one scholar whom [...]
Concerns over the Albanian Online Bookstore
On Thursday (12 Feb.), the Albanian Online Bookstore – ShtepiaeLibrit.com was unavailable for almost the whole day. This was very worrying to me because the problem was rather technical and the decision was made by the technicians of the hosting company. It took a few exchanges of messages to clarify the situation, before the issue [...]
Greek New Testament Manuscripts Discovered in Albania
Very interesting read: “As of June 2007, thirteen (13) Greek New Testament manuscripts were known to exist in the National Archive in Tirana, Albania. Western scholars had tried for decades to gain access to them. There were few success stories. A large part of the reason was due to the fact that Albania is a [...]
Reviving the Online Albanian Bookstore
These last couple of days my business partner and I have been working hard on bringing back to life the Online Albanian Bookstore ShtepiaeLibrit.com (Book House). This is the main reason why I have not been able to do much about posting anything on this Blog nor anything else for that matter. Long hours of [...]
What will happen economically with Albania in 2013?
This past weekend I meet with a close friend of mine to talk about stuff. It started out as a casual chat over a cool beer, but it got serious once we started considering how the country would fare economically this upcoming elections year. He was reasonably concerned over the economic stability of the country [...]