THE STANDARD

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.

VIEW ARTICLES BY TOPIC

Series Collection Archives

Joyce Godsey

Sep 19, 2006

Book Review: Books, Friends, and Bibliophilia by Anton Gerits

Books, Friends, and Bibliophilia: Reminiscences of an Antiquarian Bookseller, by Anton Gerits. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2004....

Chris Volk

Sep 13, 2006

How I Spent My Summer Vacation: Teaching at the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar

How do I even begin to describe what it was like to be on the faculty of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar—the booksellers’ boot...

Kenny Parolini

Sep 12, 2006

The Boot Camp for Book Dealers

I had been hearing about the Colorado Antiquarian Book Market Seminar, as it is formally termed, for a number of years. Sometime a few...

IOBA

Sep 11, 2006

Joe Perlman of Mostly Useful Fictions

My name is Joe Perlman and I am the proud owner of Mostly Useful Fictions. The name describes my specialty, which I like to think of as...

Sep 10, 2006

Marc Monsarrat of Bookmarc Books, Malahat, British Columbia

I got into bookselling by purchasing an existing inventory about four years ago. Nothing spectacular—3,500 general inventory titles. The...

Marc Monsarrat of Bookmarc Books, Malahat, British Columbia

IOBA

Sep 9, 2006

John Hardy of Hardy Books, Nevada City, California

I’m John Hardy of Hardy Books, Nevada City, California. We’re in our 10th year of business. Hardy Books specializes in “All Things...

Sep 8, 2006

Addendum

Post-Erattum In the previous issue, we used “Errata” for the column heading in this space. Errata, of course, is actually a list of...

Sep 7, 2006

Ye Old Booksellers: Forty Years Among the Old Booksellers of Philadelphia

Ye Olde Booksellers Here is a small volume with red pebbled boards entitled, Forty Years Among the Old Booksellers of Philadelphia, with...

24 25

27 28

TIP:

Flip through the articles of this series issue with the navigation at the bottom of the page or select the series title in the right column to view table of contents.