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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 Bane of the Online Book World: Mega-Listers

Readers of this journal have probably seen it happen again and again: while hunting the internet for a particular used book, you find a...

Gwen Foss

Sep 29, 2006

Plagiarism and Online Bookselling

You were warned about it at all levels of your education, and students are expelled from colleges and universities for doing it. You have...

Stuart Manley

Sep 28, 2006

Defining Mega-Listers

Before we launch into a serious and sustained consideration of the relatively new practice of mega-listing, which is of grave concern to...

Shawn Purcell

Sep 27, 2006

Megalisters: Big and Online

This is a look at some indisputably large (as in over half a million titles) online book stores that sell on Abebooks.com. It reports on...

Shawn Purcell

Sep 25, 2006

Mega-Lister Questionnaire

Short identical questionnaires were sent to Abebooks, Alibris, and Amazon, and they were kind enough to reply. A modified version was...

Sep 24, 2006

An Interview with Mike Goodenough

-Tell us a little about yourself: My passion for paper started in the school playground, swapping comics, cigarette cards and later,...

IOBA

Sep 23, 2006

From the editor

A quick glance at the table of contents suggests this will be our Mega-lister Number, but it just kind of worked out that way. Gwen Foss...

Shawn Purcell

Sep 23, 2006

Books, Books Everywhere, But Not a Page to Read, or, a Book Dealer’s Travels in Spain

This fear of running out of books can be traced back to the vacation we spent in the Outer Banks of North Carolina in the mid 1970s. I...

Joe Perlman

Sep 22, 2006

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