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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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Alan Deffenderfer

Apr 24, 2008

Book Hunter Press

(An update by Susan Siegel, co-author and publisher of the Used Book Lover’s Guides, the series of seven regional guides to 8,000 used...

Joyce Godsey

Apr 24, 2008

Really Useful Phone List

As always please forward changes or additions or removals. – 123-pix.com 800-747-2699 – Abebooks.com USA and Canada 800-315-5335 / other...

Alan Deffenderfer

Apr 23, 2008

Sam Heitman of Naples Books, Inc.

In high school I hated to read and couldn’t have cared less about books. My teachers issued mass market paperback editions of the...

Mark Sugen

Apr 22, 2008

Mark Sugen of Sugen & Co. Film & TV Tie-Ins

I began, as many dealers have, as a collector. Basically I collected (and read of course!) SF/fantasy and horror paperbacks. From Asimov...

Alan Deffenderfer

Apr 21, 2008

Michelle Black Reagan of Everleaf Books

Like so many of my IOBA brethren, my online virtual store began life as a bricks and mortar establishment. High in the Colorado ski...

Shawn Purcell

Apr 20, 2008

Happy Hits

Excerpts from recent online book descriptions: – Very Good + in god DJ. [A book on John Baptist de La Salle.] – Slight sunfade to spine...

Rock Toews

Apr 19, 2008

Pray Tell, Private Hell

While on a mid-week visit to Antietam last April I noticed another guy touring the nearly deserted battlefield. He looked about my age...

Shawn Purcell

Apr 18, 2008

Images of Book Culture

Book Culture (formerly Labyrinth Books) 536 West 112th Street, New York, NY http://www.bookculture.com

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