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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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Burke’s Dave Robicheaux Chases Demons Down Purple Cane Road

Burke crafted another haunting tour de force with Purple Cane Road, not his latest Dave Robicheaux novel, but one of his best. It is...

Feb 23, 2004

Burke’s Dave Robicheaux Chases Demons Down Purple Cane Road

Walter Mosley, Sharan Newman And Monterey, Too! That’s What Left Coast Crime 2004 Promises

(Editor’s Note: I apologize. Since this issue of The Standard is so late in going live, this event was held this last weekend. Hopefully...

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Feb 22, 2004

Walter Mosley, Sharan Newman And Monterey, Too! That’s What Left Coast Crime 2004 Promises

Book Deodorizer

One of the most pernicious knids in the last several hundred years of bookselling has been odoriferous books. As all booksellers know,...

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Feb 21, 2004

Changes at TitlesDirect.com, Inc.

By: Robin Gutterman robin@titlesdirect.com Database URLs: http://www.MyOwnBookshop.com and http://www.BookTrakker.com TitlesDirect.com,...

Feb 20, 2004

Rozan’s Winter and Night WinsTop 2003 Macavity Mystery Award

Awards for mystery novels and their authors abound! Probably the best known, and most coveted, of those given in the United States are...

Feb 19, 2004

Rozan’s Winter and Night WinsTop 2003 Macavity Mystery Award

Hijacking Elvis Cole & Joe Pike Is a Crime, Claims Popular Mystery Author Robert Crais

What’s most interesting in the case is what impact it may have on other authors, particularly those in the crime and sci-fi categories....

Feb 18, 2004

Hijacking Elvis Cole & Joe Pike Is a Crime, Claims Popular Mystery Author Robert Crais

New Features at TomFolio.com

By: Jim Arner jarnersr@wyomerc.com As TomFolio.com, the web-site owned/operated by ABookCoOp, enters the fourth year of operation, we...

Feb 17, 2004

Books & Collectibles Updated Services

By: Ann Brebner & Paul Anderson marketing@booksandcollectibles.com.au Books & Collectibles offers all the normal book listing services...

Feb 16, 2004

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