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It is a year since ChooseBooks.com made its official launch. It has been an exciting, busy year. During our first year we needed to concentrate on adding features to the site and encouraging booksellers to list their inventory so customers would find items when they search. We now have over 1,000 booksellers and 7 million items in inventory. As we enter our second year, we can concentrate more of our resources on increasing orders and bringing new customers to http://www.choo

By: Lisa Martin lisa@gbmbooks.com www.gbmbooks.com After much debate, we have decided on the fee structure for GBM. The new fee structure took effect on January 1, 2004. We will be offering secure credit card ordering via the GBM Direct program. Listing fees will be commission based: No charge to upload inventory. Commissions based on sales figures as follows: During a calendar month the first $25.00 in sales are commission free. From $25.01 to $500.00 is 10% of the sales to

Table of Contents Call for Replacement Cancelled!! New editor on the way New Orleans Mysteries Are Music to My Ears! Trussell’s Books and Book Collecting Site, and EcletiCity Penny selling The New Three Rs: Readin’, Ritin’ & Rote Biblio-cookbooks Book Cover Designs From A Century Ago Inspire A New Line of Personalized Bookplates Using online-offerings by antiquarian booksellers in the library Addiction or? Sort, Throw, Save, Publish? Family Ephemera Bookselling – Past And Pre

I’m most happy to report that Ken Fermoyle will be working with me through the remainder of 2003 and will be taking my place as editor of The IOBA Standard in 2004. Ken has worked with me on the last several issues and has done a wonderful job. He’s enthusiastic, dedicated, smart and very, very talented. He has tons of experience in editing and writing, and lots of contacts in the book and writing worlds. I’m absolutely positive Ken will produce an excellent magazine that jus

The upbeat tempo of Jazz, Zydeco, R&B and Cajun music, punctuated by mournful wails of the Blues, echoes through the streets of the Big Easy. The sounds might be slightly muted Uptown and in the Garden District but blare at full volume in the French Quarter. And the music seeps into the pages of mysteries by James Lee Burke, Julie Smith, Tony Dunbar, Sandra Brown and Tami Hoag, among others. Photos by: Liz Fermoyle New Orleans boasts a storied literary history. William Faul

I’ve been invited to talk a little about my website, Books and Book Collecting, which you may be familiar with. It’s probably mostly used by people searching for out-of-print books… there’s a collection of search engines and a hodge-podge of information about, as you might expect, books and book collecting. The site has been up on the net since September of 1996, and so is a relative old-timer. It dates back to a time when there was no Google, no eBay, and online book searche

If you put ‘Charles Dickens’ into the booksearch search engines, lowest price upwards, the first 19 entries cost one penny. Only at the 166th entry does the price finally reach $1. If you repeat the experiment with ‘John Grisham’, you have to go to entry 390 before you get above one penny! And you have to almost reach the 1,000th entry before a whole dollar is charged! What on earth is going on? Are these people making money? The answer is no, they are not. They are deluding

Can a standardized, scripted reading program meet the diverse needs of a class full of unique students? During my credential program at the University of California in Santa Barbara, I was able to observe a scripted reading class on a daily basis for six weeks while serving as an observer/student teacher as in a “Reading for Success” class. This class was composed of students who tested below their grade level on the standardized language assessment test administered at the e