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Mary C. Jane, children’s author. I certainly never heard of her before. Ms. Jane is a little difficult to Google up because the name is so common, but eventually we find the trail in a Maine Writers Index. “Mary Childs Jane (18 September 1909 – 26 July 1991). Children’s mystery writer Mary Childs Jane was born in Needham, Massachusetts, and graduated from Bridgewater State Teachers College (Mass.) in 1931. Before her marriage to William Jane in 1937, w[ith] whom she had two s

Table of Contents MyOwnBookshop.com Closes ChrisLands.com, then and now BookTrakker Pro 3.1: One-Click Uploads to Amazon Marketplace and zShops Ephemeral Assays – Fire Keepers The Online Book Trade and its Markets Collecting the Modern Library: A Gentle Introduction Making Money from Book Care Penny Selling, Part 2 From the editor

by Robin Gutterman Do you remember Jimmy Durante? He was a comedian that started in Vaudeville, worked his way into nightclubs, radio and TV, and eventually into the heart of the nation. He put his heart and soul into every performance, but at the very end of every show, beginning in the 40s, his tone became somber as he slowly walked through successive, diminishing spotlights, then turning to the audience, he would deliver what became his signature sign-off, “Goodnight, Mrs.

Lance Christen The story of ChrisLands.com started in 1999 when Lance Christen and Jaymes Sorbel began two years of researching the online used bookselling market. Lance, with a background in business administration, focused his research on the business aspects of the online used book market and Jaymes, with computer science experience, focused his research and work on developing a web site application specifically for selling used books. Lance found that four internet compan

Robin Gutterman TitlesDirect.com launched the latest version of its online bookselling database, BookTrakker Pro v3.0, in March 2004, followed by an update release v3.1 in August. Together, the new version and update release introduced key new features, optimizations, and fixes. When asked to highlight key features and improvements to BookTrakker Pro, CEO Andrew Gutterman stated “Of the many benefits v3.0 and the v3.1 update release bring, two stand out. First, OneClick uploa

“Long ago the earth was entirely covered by a great blanket of water. At that time the only living creatures of the world were water animals such as the beaver, muskrat, duck, and loon. There was no sun, moon, or stars and so there was no light.” Many years later, when there was light, I sat at the top of a high bank looking down into a long confluent pool of the Fox Creek, where I saw a beaver, a muskrat and a mink all plying their trade at the same time. That’s a pretty rar

Part One: An Overview Charles Vilnis It seems to me that there are two distinct markets in the booktrade. the high-end market for collectors and the used book market for folks who need information from out of print publications or used substitutes for books that are still in print. The Internet has very different implications for those very different markets. Alibris threw ten’s of millions at trying to “grow” the high-end market – the end now served by ILAB, Bibliopoly and t

In recent years more and more people have been collecting Modern Library books. And it’s no wonder — all but the most prized copies are still affordable, they look great on the shelf, there are a myriad of ways to collect them, and you get to build a wonderful library of books you can actually read in the process! A Plethora of Collecting Options Basics The Modern Library is an ongoing series of mostly reprints published more-or-less continuously from 1917 to the present. Ove