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Aug 8, 2008
Summer 2008 (Vol. IX, No. 2)
Table of Contents Foreword What Should Amazon Do with AbeBooks? Problems with Amazon as an Antiquarian Seller Site What Is Wrong With...
Shawn Purcell
Aug 8, 2008
The Bookshelf of Willie Sutton
Dated 2/19/1952, probably International News Photo.
Shawn Purcell
Jul 31, 2008
Foreword
In the online bookselling Dreamtime about a decade ago, there was Interloc (the larval stage of Alibris), Bibliofind (very clean of...
Alan Deffenderfer
Jul 30, 2008
Problems with Amazon as an Antiquarian Seller Site
What is wrong with Amazon? This is a question that is not possible to answer with any degree of objectivity for either buyer or seller...
David Wilson
Jul 29, 2008
What Should Amazon Do with AbeBooks?
Most importantly, Amazon should take its time and look at AbeBooks carefully, recognize its unique strengths (and its many easily-cured...
April Hearn
Jul 28, 2008
What Is Wrong With Today’s Amazon?
What will happen now that Amazon owns ABE? Generally speaking, AbeBooks sellers who list on Amazon are hoping there will be no automated...
Alan Deffenderfer
Jul 27, 2008
A Bookseller’s Tasha Tudor Remembrance
I add my voice to the many others who note the passing of Tasha Tudor with sadness. Many lives have been touched by Tasha’s art and her...
Shawn Purcell
Jul 26, 2008
An Open Letter To The Select Committee On Security And Consitutional Affairs, Parliament Of The Repu
Dear Committee Members, This is in regard to the proposed Second-Hand Goods Bill [B2-2008] and the effect it would have on independent...