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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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Shirley Dyess

Jun 29, 2007

Appraising for Booksellers

All of you have gotten the phone call. The person on the other end has inherited or been given or found at a garage sale a book/books...

Shawn Purcell

Jun 28, 2007

An Interview with Donald Hawthorne of Noah’s Ark Book Attic

-Let’s clear something up right away Donald. How did you come up with the name Noah’s Ark Book Attic? The name Noah’s Ark Book Attic grew...

Joe Perlman

Jun 26, 2007

“Meet Me in St. Louis,” or, A Book Dealer’s Travels to the Gateway to the West

Within the last four years I have been in the St. Louis area at least half a dozen times, but I have never had the chance to see the...

Shawn Purcell

Jun 24, 2007

Ephemeral Assays: Face Cards

In the glorious pantheon of postcard production, glamorous nameless head shots are not usually valuable or noteworthy. They certainly...

Laura

Jun 23, 2007

Book Expo America 2007: “It’s About People and Books”

BEA. To go, or not to go, that was the question. With my new baby, Perfect Pines Books and Gifts still in its infancy, I had to ask...

Chris Volk

Jun 22, 2007

Pros and Cons of Alibris.com for Buyers and Sellers

This is the second in a series of articles taking a brief look at the pros and cons of the various multi-dealer book listing databases....

IOBA

Jun 20, 2007

Craig Horle and Laurie Wolfe of Classic Books and Ephemera

We are Craig Horle and Laurie Wolfe of Classic Books and Ephemera, which we run out of our home in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania. When we began...

IOBA

Jun 19, 2007

Nancy Johnson, Bookseller, Denver, CO

“I sell books about antiques.” “You sell antique books? I have an old school book that was my grandmother’s.” “No, I sell books ABOUT...

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