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Dear Fellow Booksellers, The Out-of-Print & Antiquarian Book Market Seminar—the intensive one-week program for booksellers and collectors at all levels of experience—is accepting registrants for this year’s session, which will be held August 3 through 8 at Colorado College in beautiful Colorado Springs. Now in its 25th year, the seminar has graduated more than 2,000 participants, many of whom have become prominent figures in the antiquarian book world. Graduates have describ

I started writing this book in the early part of January 2002 and finished it about 10 weeks later. I wanted to make it an educational book that everyone could enjoy, having no violence or swearing, yet intense enough to intrigue one’s mind. In addition to it being educational, I also wanted the story to have a lot of science in it, something I feel that I did accomplish while also having a lot of fun in the process. During the completion phase of the book, I found that the h

By: Kate Lindemann ChooseBooks.com focuses on creating “added value”. The company provides extra services while their listing book sellers offer inventory at the same competitive prices as on other sites. The site’s added value focus is attracting both buyers and sellers. Hundreds of booksellers have registered and uploaded inventory. Orders are increasing and more buyers are registering accounts. In December, ChooseBooks.com announced preferred customer status and a frequent

By: Jack Benson URL: http://www.ammonet-services.com First, many thanks to IOBA and IOBA Standard editor Shirley Bryant for the opportunity to describe some of our current book-related development projects here at ammonet in Zurich. The new http://www.bibliophile.net web site and database is currently in beta test phase. The features likely to interest dealers most are the custom search page facility, and the improved search and display. We have always offered a custom search

http://www.thebookcellar.com The BookCellar.com is pleased to announce the launch of our new dealer site http://www.TBCdealers.com a database for used, rare, and out-of-print books. We are dedicated to bringing booksellers and book-buyers around the globe together under one high-powered search engine. We offer FREE listings with no setup cost and no obligations. You only pay when you sell. We list your books on our site and buy them from you at a 20% discount. We’ve been lis

A personal note to my friend, Alyce Cresap A dear friend—one I’ve never met face to face but have grown to love and trust—will be leaving us soon, as she is in the final stages of an incurable disease. I do not want to wait and do an obituary for Alyce—I want to tell her how I feel about her now, while she is still able to read my words. I first met Alyce when we were both involved in starting IOBA. But I really started to get to know her when we both were new board members a

By: J. R. McWilliams http://www.abooksearch.com/ Abooksearch.com, an on-line community of old, rare and out-of-print booksellers, announces three free months for new sign-ups. There is no obligation. You do not pay a cent if you do not wish to continue beyond the first three months. When we made this offer of three free months to new members, we gave three free months to those booksellers who were already members. We felt it only fitting and proper, and part of our commitment

It really is an exciting time to be a bookseller. Some may say the golden years are gone, sentimental feelings now setting in for the slow-paced past of primarily brick and mortar (B&M) businesses. But like other points in history, bookselling is simply undergoing its latest transformation. Let us not look at it as a bad thing. For starters, the advent of online bookselling opened opportunities for sellers to actually interact with customers in parts of the world most have on