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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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Bob Maddox

Jun 10, 2013

Squid Ink Books – Tucson, Arizona

I was always an avid reader: fiction, science fiction, natural history, dinosaurs, and on and on. I grew up in a dirty and dull steel...

Mike Tuck

Jun 10, 2013

Bungalow Books – Pueblo, Colorado

I fell into bookselling quite by accident. I had been a bartender in Toronto during the 80’s, but relocated to Southern California in the...

Suzanne Mantell

Jun 6, 2013

Warwick Books, South Pasadena, California

Being around books, and buying and selling them, makes me happy. I sometimes try to enumerate the reasons why. There are the obvious...

Warwick Books, South Pasadena, California

IOBA

Mar 10, 2013

Spring 2013 (Vol. XII, No. 1)

Table of Contents From the Editor From the President “Don’t Do It!” A Small Association Building the World’s Best Collection of _________...

Howard Prouty

Mar 10, 2013

From the Editor

Less than three weeks after assuming the position of Editor, I am pleased to present the first issue of The Standard for 2013, and to...

Chris Volk

Mar 7, 2013

From the President

Traditionally, newly elected IOBA Presidents started out the year with a message to the members. I was going to do that in this issue,...

Gregory Gibson

Mar 6, 2013

“Don’t Do It!”

Editor’s note: My first encounter with this article was actually at its debut, as a talk delivered by Greg to the Class of 2009 (of which...

icc568

Mar 5, 2013

A Small Association

This is the story of a minor bibliographic mystery, and how it was solved. It’s just a small story — no big reveal to be picked up by the...

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