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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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Ephemeral Assays: Photo Finish

I’ve always had mixed feelings about thoroughbred flat track and steeplechase racing. Many of the horses probably like it on some level,...

Shawn Purcell

Jan 29, 2007

Book Review: Of Bookmen & Printers, by Ward Ritchie

Of Bookmen & Printers: A Gathering of Memories, by Ward Ritchie. Los Angeles, CA: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1989. Books about booksellers can...

Shawn Purcell

Jan 28, 2007

A Moving Experience: Abracadabra Bookshop

Before getting into the book business, I taught Colorado & Western American History at a local college. I couldn’t help noticing that...

Alan Culpin

Jan 26, 2007

Shirley Dyess of The Dust Jacket, Irving,TX

When I was six years old my mother took me to the library and I got my first library card. I felt like I had just been given the key to a...

Jan 25, 2007

Bronwyn Smith of Dromanabooks, Australia

Hi, I am Bronwyn Smith of Dromanabooks, Australia. Dromanabooks is an online-only bookshop supplying non-fiction to clients in Australia,...

IOBA

Jan 24, 2007

Addendum

Happy Hits Relying on a general internet search for some information on a new book titled Great Graves of Upstate New York, Google asked,...

Shawn Purcell

Jan 23, 2007

“Yet More Bookworm Droppings

Book Store Lore “Yet More Bookworm Droppings” by Stuart Manley Back in the sixties, in an earlier life, I used to work night shift in a...

Stuart Manley

Jan 22, 2007

Fall 2006 (Vol.VII, No. 2)

Table of Contents From the editor The Bane of the Online Book World: Mega-Listers Plagiarism and Online Bookselling Defining Mega-Listers...

IOBA

Sep 29, 2006

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