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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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“Rare Book School is like graduate school.”

In the world of antiquarian books, there’s no substitute for experience. Handling thousands of books over a long period of time helps one...

Christine Lowenstein

Jun 16, 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...

Joan and DeWayne White

Jun 15, 2011

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

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...

Terry Gibbs

Jun 14, 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...

Meryll Williams

Jun 13, 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...

David Friedman

Jun 12, 2011

BEST OF: 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...

Kenny Parolini

Jun 10, 2011

BEST OF: Rare Book School, A Week Among Bright Bookish Minds

In years past, aspiring book dealers learned the trade by apprenticing with experienced ones. Today, with so few “bricks and mortar”...

Alan Deffenderfer

Jun 10, 2011

BEST OF: Overlooked and Undervalued, The Bookseller’s Inventory Database

Most booksellers when evaluating their business assets will consider the cost and potential market value of their inventory, the cost of...

Chris Volk

Jun 8, 2011

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