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The IOBA Standard is the journal of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and covers the book world, with a special focus on the online used, out-of-print, and collectible bookselling markets.

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Copperfish Books

Jul 18, 2008

Letter to the Editor: Thank You

Dear IOBA, I am writing to thank you and the board members of IOBA once more for granting me a scholarship award to this year’s Colorado...

Sharon Heimann

Jul 17, 2008

Yard Sale Tales

I had been selling books for just about a year, and was on a scouting trip. After a long unsuccessful, very hot morning of yard sales my...

Bronwyn Smith

Jul 17, 2008

Happy Hits

Isn’t the internet wonderful? Received a call from a customer who told me that he’d just visited a London bookshop. He was in search of a...

Shawn Purcell

Jul 16, 2008

Literary Pilgrimages: Patchin Place

From the Wikipedia entry on Patchin Place: “Patchin Place is a gated cul-de-sac located off 10th Street and Avenue of the Americas in New...

Shawn Purcell

Jul 15, 2008

A passion for books but not proofreading

Yesterday I received an email from AbeBooks which stated that I could save 48% on Stephan King’s Duma Key. Stephan King? It seems that...

A passion for books but not proofreading

Shawn Purcell

Jul 14, 2008

MacIntosh Books and Paper

MacIntosh Books and Paper 2365 Periwinkle Way, Sanibel, FL http://www.beachhunter.net/advertising/Sanibel/macintosh_books_and_paper.htm...

Shawn Purcell

Jul 13, 2008

Book Store Labels: Zavelle Book Stores, Philadelphia

From the inside front cover of A History of England by W. Freeman Galpin (NY: Prentice-Hall, 1938), and weighing in at 2.75” by 3.5”.

Shawn Purcell

Jul 12, 2008

Bookplates: W. B. Brandt & Co.

From the inside front cover of A Treatise on Fine Arts by W. B. Brandt et al (W. B. Brandt & Co., 1930). Not much publishing information,...

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