ALL ARTICLES

IOBA’s Toothsome Twosome Will Be There The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books again promises to be the book event of the year on the West Coast and one of the best in the nation. The two-day celebration of the written word is free to the public and attracted 140,000 booklovers last year. At least as many are expected to crowd the UCLA campus on Saturday and Sunday, April 26-27, for the 2003 Festival. And IOBA will be there, led by that toothsome twosome of Julie Fauble and M

Most online booksellers may not know of me. I founded BookGraveyard.com (later renamed Bookquarters.com) in 1999 and later purchased “Bookseller Monthly.” Due to personal problems last year I bowed out of and sold Bookquarters.com and suspended publication of “Bookseller Monthly” unannounced. Some would say, rightfully so, that I seemingly fell off the face of the earth. But even with my failures most booksellers have welcomed me back, first and foremost, with a genuine inter

It’s that time again, and we have a varied—and I hope interesting bag of goodies for you. We’re a bit late this time, as we wanted to get IOBA’s election results in. We have a lot of practical hands-on advice on everything from shelving, maintaining inventory online and in an open store, online customer newsletters, women’s literature links, Q&A on book matters, to ethical considerations in the book business. There are announcements of upcoming book-related events, coverage o

Women Illustrators: http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/pcl33.html http://www.virginia.edu/oldbooks/exhibitions/current.shtml Women bookbinders in 19th century: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0712304118/202-7813865-3886207 Women who organized the printing trade: http://www.mfh.org/specialprojects/shwlp/site/honorees/sullivan.html http://search.eb.com/women/articles/Kehew_Mary_Morton_Kimball.html Women printers, illustrators and book designers: http://www.prince

Q. I’ve got a book, printed in Switzerland in 1944, appears to be perfect bound, but with flimsy cardboard boards, no endpapers (not removed – they were never there). And it has a dustjacket. What do I call this binding? Flexible boards? Is there a more precise term? Julie Fauble A. Flexible binding should work fine. Limp binding seems to only apply to suede or soft leather. Joyce Godsey Q. What is the name of the plastic binding of interwoven fingers (for lack of a better te

The majority of booksellers don’t like change, we still run Windows 98 and Office 97 and won’t usually change until we absolutely have to. It’s just our way. My little obsolete Visor Deluxe with it’s 8 megs of RAM still works fine and does just what I need. Sure, I would love online capabilities but until it becomes cost effective for me, I probably won’t upgrade. There are two types of booksellers, those who have a PDA and those who want a PDA and right this very second t

Today’s topic is building loads, almost guaranteed to make your eyes glaze over. however . . . If you have a lot of books, if you are afraid to sleep at night because you fear you will wake up in the basement, if you have no idea at all if your concern is justified, prop your eyelids open and read on. Buildings are designed to safely support anticipated dead loads and live loads. Dead loads are permanent loads (the weight of the building). Live loads are all loads that are no

JOURNEY BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN, G.P. Putnam’s, 1963 THE MAGIC GARDEN OF STANLEY SWEETHEART, Crown, 1969; Bantam paperback, 1970 THE LEFT-HANDED POLICEMAN, Crown, 1986; Warner Books paperback, 1987 NOSTALGIA KILLS, Crown, 1988 LADY LEFT, Crown, 1990 RICH KIDS, Birchlane, 1992 INTIMATE LIES, Harper Collins, 1995 Novels based on screenplays: THE MEXICAN, Signet, 2001 INSOMNIA, Signet, 2002 Howard Moon Deer Series: GHOST DANCER, Signet, 1998 WARRIOR CIRCLE, Signet, 1999 RED MOON