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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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Shawn Purcell

Apr 30, 2007

Ephemeral Assays: Jumpin’ Jehovah

Organizations often produce very dry and seemingly worthless records and publications. I remember an early book show where my young...

Shawn Purcell

Apr 29, 2007

Book review: Bookstore: The Life and Times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co

Bookstore: The Life and Times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co., by Lynne Tillman. NY: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1999. Books & Co. was...

Book review: Bookstore: The Life and Times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co

Chris Volk

Apr 28, 2007

Pros and Cons of AbeBooks.com for Buyers and Sellers

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

Apr 27, 2007

Cathy Graham and Serena Wyckoff of Copperfish Books, LLC

Hi, we are Cathy Graham and Serena Wyckoff, owners of Copperfish Books, LLC, in sunny southwest Florida. Before going full time in...

Apr 26, 2007

Paul Mills of Clarke’s Africana & Rare Books

Booksellers in America sometimes ask me how we run a successful antiquarian and secondhand book business in “darkest Africa.” I usually...

Apr 24, 2007

Tami W. Zawistowski of Resource Books, LLC

I’m Tami Zawistowski of Resource Books, LLC, based in East Granby, Connecticut, USA. Resource Books offers its books almost exclusively...

Apr 23, 2007

Addendum

Hartfelt Gratitude Letter to the editor. “Please contact Jim Hart and express my heartfelt gratitude for the wonderful article he wrote...

Stuart Manley

Mar 28, 2007

Anyone for the Forsythe Saga?

A quick scan of search sites reveals that 537 people can’t spell “Tolkien.” (And a further 58 can’t spell “Hobbit.”) “The Forsythe Saga”...

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