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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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Felix Stenert

Sep 23, 2003

Using online-offerings by antiquarian booksellers in the library

Editor’s Note: Felix Stenert is a graduate student in Germany, and this article is a portion of his master’s thesis (we will probably...

Using online-offerings by antiquarian booksellers in the library

Shirley Bryant

Sep 22, 2003

Addiction or?

I’ve been musing about something, brought on by the reactions of my husband and my sister to some of my risk-taking behaviors in buying...

Joyce Godsey

Sep 21, 2003

Sort, Throw, Save, Publish?

A bookseller is always either making decisions or postponing them. About five years ago I attended an auction and acquired a station...

Joyce Godsey

Sep 20, 2003

Family Ephemera

On the letterhead of the Butte Saddle Mining Syndicate Offices in the Bacon Building, Oakland April 2nd, 1909 This is a memorandum for...

Joyce Godsey

Sep 19, 2003

Nevermore – How it Started

Nevermore is a new line of signed limited editions published by Festa Publishing. It will contain books in German language that may be...

Michael John Thompson

Sep 18, 2003

Bookselling – Past And Present, On and Off Line

I was asked to write an article about the history of Internet bookselling and the interaction between on-line bookselling and a proper...

Rick Russell

Sep 17, 2003

The Return of AB Bookman

T. S. Eliot, perhaps, described the end of AB Bookman best, it went out “… not with a bang, but a whimper.” For almost 50 years, it was...

Scott Brown

Sep 16, 2003

Neither a Collector Nor a Saver Be

In the course of selling books over the last eight years, I have had the good fortune to handle the letters and manuscripts of many...

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