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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.

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MEMBER PROFILE

Biographies and autobiographies of IOBA members

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...

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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...

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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...

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Warwick Books, South Pasadena, California

William Knox

Feb 28, 2013

William Knox, The Penang Bookshelf, Penang, Malaysia

The Penang Bookshelf specialises in buying and selling fiction and non-fiction, both new and old, principally about Malaysia, but also...

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William Knox, The Penang Bookshelf, Penang, Malaysia

Amy Candiotti

Aug 12, 2012

Pistil Books Online, Seattle WA

I’ve always been an avid reader and bibliophile. I have been selling books since my first job in a used bookstore right after graduating...

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Tom Nealon

Sep 13, 2011

Pazzo Books of West Roxbury, MA

My brother and I started fooling around with the idea of starting a shop in early 2002. He was finishing up at Rutgers and my days of...

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John Howell

Sep 11, 2011

John Howell for Books, Los Angeles, CA

What is the name of your business and when was it started? John Howell for Books started on January 1, 2005. Where are you located? Los...

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Joan and DeWayne White

Jun 15, 2011

DeWayne and Joan White, White Unicorn Books, Dallas, TX

Hi, Folks! We are White Unicorn Books. We are DeWayne (De) and Joan White of Dallas, Texas. We married in 1995 but we had know each other...

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DeWayne and Joan White, White Unicorn Books, Dallas, TX

Terry Gibbs

Jun 14, 2011

Terry Gibbs, Gibbs Books, Williamsville, NY

I started as a book dealer quite by accident back in the 1980s. As a collector of photography and other interesting item from Automobiles...

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Meryll Williams

Jun 13, 2011

Meryll Williams of Rainy Day Books (Australia)

All of my life I have been a book collector and all of my adult life I wanted to open a second hand bookshop. I settled for school...

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Meryll Williams of Rainy Day Books (Australia)

David Friedman

Jun 12, 2011

Why I Belong to the IOBA

In the quiet darkness of a late fall night, circa 1923, my grandfather Charlie and his family packed their belongings and quietly left...

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Shawn Purcell

Jun 3, 2011

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...

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