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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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The Hard Way

There is a package on my desk, unopened. I know what’s in it. It weighs slightly more than a pound, and its cold, metallic heart holds my...

Alice Voith

Apr 26, 2008

Insurance for Bookdealers

I decided a while ago that it was time to reconsider what I was doing with insurance for the company and began collecting information on...

Ian J. Kahn

Apr 26, 2008

Book Hunter Press

(An update by Susan Siegel, co-author and publisher of the Used Book Lover’s Guides, the series of seven regional guides to 8,000 used...

Alan Deffenderfer

Apr 24, 2008

Really Useful Phone List

As always please forward changes or additions or removals. – 123-pix.com 800-747-2699 – Abebooks.com USA and Canada 800-315-5335 / other...

Joyce Godsey

Apr 24, 2008

Sam Heitman of Naples Books, Inc.

In high school I hated to read and couldn’t have cared less about books. My teachers issued mass market paperback editions of the...

Alan Deffenderfer

Apr 23, 2008

Mark Sugen of Sugen & Co. Film & TV Tie-Ins

I began, as many dealers have, as a collector. Basically I collected (and read of course!) SF/fantasy and horror paperbacks. From Asimov...

Mark Sugen

Apr 22, 2008

Michelle Black Reagan of Everleaf Books

Like so many of my IOBA brethren, my online virtual store began life as a bricks and mortar establishment. High in the Colorado ski...

Alan Deffenderfer

Apr 21, 2008

Happy Hits

Excerpts from recent online book descriptions: – Very Good + in god DJ. [A book on John Baptist de La Salle.] – Slight sunfade to spine...

Shawn Purcell

Apr 20, 2008

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