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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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From the Editor

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...

Shirley Bryant

Feb 27, 2003

Hot Links: Women in the Book Trade

Women Illustrators: http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/pcl33.html http://www.virginia.edu/oldbooks/exhibitions/current.shtml Women...

icc568

Feb 26, 2003

IOBA Q & A Column

Q. I’ve got a book, printed in Switzerland in 1944, appears to be perfect bound, but with flimsy cardboard boards, no endpapers (not...

icc568

Feb 25, 2003

PDA’s In Bookselling

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...

Joyce Godsey

Feb 24, 2003

A Weighty Subject

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...

Susan Bugher

Feb 23, 2003

Interview of Robert Westbrook, Author

JOURNEY BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN, G.P. Putnam’s, 1963 THE MAGIC GARDEN OF STANLEY SWEETHEART, Crown, 1969; Bantam paperback, 1970 THE...

Shirley Bryant

Feb 22, 2003

Review: Sic Ravings

A review of SIC Magazine, the world’s only magazine devoted to mockery of books, bookselling and the culture of books: a miscellany of...

Stephen Windwalker

Feb 21, 2003

secondhandbooks.org: buy and sell books online for FREE!

Secondhandbooks.org is a new site created by UK web developer Tom Chadwin to allow non-book dealers to buy and sell second-hand and...

IOBA

Feb 20, 2003

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