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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: Herbarium Symposium

Weeding through countless fields of obsolete digital pics and scans on my hard drive, up popped a set of images from Herbarium and Plant...

Shawn Purcell

Sep 21, 2006

Book Reviews The Art of the Book & Beauty and the Book

The Art of the Book: A Review of Some Recent European and American Work in Typography, Page Decoration and Binding, by Charles Holme....

Lynn Wienck

Sep 20, 2006

Book Review: Books, Friends, and Bibliophilia by Anton Gerits

Books, Friends, and Bibliophilia: Reminiscences of an Antiquarian Bookseller, by Anton Gerits. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2004....

Joyce Godsey

Sep 19, 2006

How I Spent My Summer Vacation: Teaching at the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar

How do I even begin to describe what it was like to be on the faculty of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar—the booksellers’ boot...

Chris Volk

Sep 13, 2006

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

Sep 12, 2006

Joe Perlman of Mostly Useful Fictions

My name is Joe Perlman and I am the proud owner of Mostly Useful Fictions. The name describes my specialty, which I like to think of as...

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Sep 11, 2006

Marc Monsarrat of Bookmarc Books, Malahat, British Columbia

I got into bookselling by purchasing an existing inventory about four years ago. Nothing spectacular—3,500 general inventory titles. The...

Sep 10, 2006

Marc Monsarrat of Bookmarc Books, Malahat, British Columbia

John Hardy of Hardy Books, Nevada City, California

I’m John Hardy of Hardy Books, Nevada City, California. We’re in our 10th year of business. Hardy Books specializes in “All Things...

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Sep 9, 2006

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