Spring 2003 (Vol. IV, No. 1)

Table of Contents

• President’s Message

• Global Book Town Independent Booksellers

• Trances That Heal: Rites, Rituals and Brain Chemicals

• For Love or Money?

• Mystery Novel Characters: Often Miscast for Films, TV

• Producing Your Own Newsletter

• Pitspopany Press

• Ravings

• Stanford Libraries Create Saroyan Prize for Writers

• The Quiet Revolution: The Expansion of the Used Book Market ©

• Good ethics are good business (but don’t forget your margins)

• Books at Auction

• Constant Change – Columbia Books

• English Teacher Efforts To Interest Teens in Books, Reading

• The Future of Used Bookselling – An Observation

• Never Mind The Book, How’s The Cover?

• Ephemeral Assays – the Paper Trail

• Miami Book Fair International

• The 2002 Oregon Antiquarian Book Fair

• OP MAGAZINE: A New Book Magazine

• Here’s A Clue For Mystery Fans: Left Coast Crime 2003 Opens Feb. 27

• L.A. Festival of Books Set for April 25-27

• Bookseller Monthly

• From the Editor

• Hot Links: Women in the Book Trade

• IOBA Q & A Column

• PDA’s In Bookselling

• A Weighty Subject

• Interview of Robert Westbrook, Author

• Review: Sic Ravings

• secondhandbooks.org: buy and sell books online for FREE!

• Chrislands Online Bookstores

• Biblio.com Announcement