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Is an online bookstore for you? Have you ever considered setting-up a website to promote your bookselling? Have you started building a website but found the task too time consuming? If you have your own website, would you like to add the ability for your visitors to search, browse, and securely order books? Do you want to build your online identity and your own base of customers? If you answered yes to any of the questions above, then Chrisland.com may be able to help you. Wh

Currently, we are offering a free 3 month trial period for booksellers who would like to participate. There is no setup fee, and no obligation, and after the three months are over, we offer an outstanding guarantee for our members: monthly fees are based on the number of books listed with us, or 15% of monthly sales through us — whichever is less. For information on our services, fees, guarantee, or to sign up, please visit http://www.biblio.com/listing_info.php. In addition,

Table of Contents Free Trial Offer from the Americana Exchange Note from the Editor From the President Tom Sawyer – BookWriter Web Charles Vilnis – BookRouter & Allusive Information Systems Genuine Fakes: Mark Hoffman Godsey’s Ravings David Klappholtz, Book Collecting from a Collector’s viewpoint Collecting Lost Race Novels Six Crises and a Challenge The More Things Change . . . Where we have been and where we are going in the Online Book Worl Eloise Wilkin – author, illustra

The online library is a searchable database of the best-known Americana bibliographies as well as some not as well known resources. Among the best known are Sabin, Evans, and Church. Not as well known are Bradford and Pilling. Then there are other types of resources, like the catalogs of Thomas Streeter’s collection, the Maggs Brothers catalogs from the 1920’s, and many volumes from the Depression era American Imprints Inventory. And, the AE will continue to add new reference

This is quite an exciting issue, to me. We have the development of a wonderful new (and easy) way to show our books on the web and increase our customer base, several new and fascinating articles to add to our reference department ranging from mysteries to religious works to a new online Americana reference service to the Brittanica 11 to an exploration of Mark Hofmann’s forgeries. We have coverage of several book fairs, and announcements from and interviews with several comm

More Questions than Answers By: Julie Fauble President, IOBA URL: http://www.centurybooks.com I have more questions than answers these days. What will happen in this rapidly changing online used book market? How do I respond to these changes? What do I want my business to look like? What can I do to make my business better? So many questions and so many different answers, as many answers as there are booksellers. I’m not going to give you any answers here. Instead, I want to

BookWriter Web: Getting Your Inventory Where it Belongs — In Front of Buyers! Tom Sawyer is a co-founder of Interloc and Alibris. He served as Chief Software Engineer from 1993-2001. Over the years, he has developed many widely used programs for booksellers, including BookMaster, Record Manager, BookMate, and the UIEE format many of us use every day. Mr. Sawyer is now preparing to release BookWriter, which may well become the standard against which the next generation of book

URLS: http://www.allusys.com and http://www.bookrouter.com When Shirley Bryant approached me with a request to do an interview for the IOBA’s The Standard newsletter, it forced me to reflect on what it is my colleagues and I do at Allusive Information Systems and how we got here to be doing it…. From personal experience, I can tell you that book dealers and computer people are very much alike – generally independent, a bit eccentric and definitely passionate about the ingredi