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IOBA Q & A Column
Q. I’ve been looking for ways to supplement the low sales recently. Is there any market for book searches and if so, what kind of fees do...
icc568
May 30, 2005
Do Your Books Smell Their Best?
“Customers will buy our books to read them” was just one of our naive assumptions when we began selling books. We also believed that we...
Stuart Manley
May 29, 2005
Spring 2005 (Vol. VI, No. 1)
Table of Contents I’ll Get Straight To The Point Biblio Finds Its Way in the Used, Rare, and Out-of-print Book Market Is a “Stand-Alone”...
IOBA
May 28, 2005
Ephemeral Assays: Genealogical Ephemera
Many in the book and paper trade have had occasion to ponder early family history items that come our way. Family Bibles, journals,...
Shawn Purcell
May 28, 2005
BookWriter Professional: An Interview with Thomas A. Sawyer
MP: Tom, what’s different about BookWriter Professional? Why would a bookseller be interested in this program? TS: A number of reasons,...
Mike Pengelly
May 28, 2005
Dan Glaeser Books, Modesto, CA
Most book dealers have a story about how they found themselves in the book trade and I am no exception.\ I don’t think there are many...
Dan Glaeser
May 26, 2005
Lessons Learned – Life in the Book Business
Like most people in the used and rare book business today, I was not trained for this career. I did not have access to the generations of...
Richard Weatherford
May 25, 2005
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You read that right, folks. I’ve been too busy to think up some witty nonsense for a title, so I’m putting the burden on you. Go ahead...
Michael Watson
May 23, 2005