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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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Feb 3, 2007

Winter 2007 (Vol. VIII, No. 1)

Table of Contents From the editor Hunting Slobodkin From Clicks to Bricks: A Book Store . . . in HALE, Michigan An Interview with Vic...

Shawn Purcell

Feb 3, 2007

From the editor

Eudora Welty and my Eudora Pro email program (which they sort of named after her) remind me of the early days of online bookselling. She...

Carol Reid

Feb 2, 2007

Hunting Slobodkin

I am perhaps the owner of the largest collection of Louis Slobodkin books in the whole wide world—which of course makes me very happy....

Laura

Feb 1, 2007

From Clicks to Bricks: A Book Store . . . in HALE, Michigan

“Have you lost your mind?” they keep asking. “A BOOK store, in HALE, Michigan . . .” one naysayer remarks after overhearing my news. She...

Shawn Purcell

Jan 31, 2007

An Interview with Vic Zoschak of Tavistock Books

-Tell us a little about yourself. Bookselling is my second career. As a ’74 graduate of the US Coast Guard Academy, I spent the first 23...

Joe Perlman

Jan 30, 2007

Globalization vs. Americanization, or, a Book Dealer’s Travels through Portugal

As a general rule, whenever I go to a foreign country for vacation, I start reading about the area several months in advance. I try to...

Shawn Purcell

Jan 29, 2007

Ephemeral Assays: Photo Finish

I’ve always had mixed feelings about thoroughbred flat track and steeplechase racing. Many of the horses probably like it on some level,...

Shawn Purcell

Jan 28, 2007

Book Review: Of Bookmen & Printers, by Ward Ritchie

Of Bookmen & Printers: A Gathering of Memories, by Ward Ritchie. Los Angeles, CA: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1989. Books about booksellers can...

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