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URL: http://www.abaa.org (EDITOR’S NOTE: PLEASE NOTE THAT ABAA IS A MEMBERS’ ONLY DATABASE, BUT INFORMATION WILL GIVEN AT THE END OF THIS INTERVIEW ABOUT HOW TO JOIN, WHAT THE REQUIREMENTS ARE, AND SOME OF THE BENEFITS OF JOINING.) What is your purpose in starting a online book database (i.e., to help online booksellers, to get a database that does what you think a book database should do, because it’s a good business to be in, all of the above, none of the above, or ????). T

URL: http://www.bibliophile.net What is [was] your purpose in starting a online book database (i.e., to help online booksellers, to get a database that does what you think a book database should do, because it’s a good business to be in, all of the above, none of the above, or ????). In 1998, when I was first thinking about bibliophile.net as an interesting database project, as far as I knew there were no multi-lingual book databases on-line. I felt there was a need for one a

URL: http://www.searchbiblio.com The short of SearchBiblio.com is that it was established in October, 2000 under the name of biblio.com. In October of 2001, the site was moved from biblio.com to SearchBiblio.com, in order to free up the biblio.com address for other plans we have underway. The essential idea was that we could provide a fast and clean alternative to the major engines (our average search weighs in at under 10 seconds). SearchBiblio.com is a service which is run

URL: http://www.wantedbooks.com/ When A. R. (Randy) Backer and James Bryant (Backer-Bryant Academic Library Services) approached web developer, Patty Johnson, about their idea for a new web site in early 2002, they knew they had a new concept for online book databases. They imagined a site where book buyers could post their wanted books “out loud,” for the world to fill. They felt buyers would come to a site where they could advertise for the books they wanted and, while ther

URL: http://www.bibliodirect.com Nothing much to report, really; no hype, no adjectives, just a consistent steady growth. At present we have two million books listed on BiblioDirect, from 350 dealers in the United States, Canada, England, Ireland, Israel, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. BiblioDirect President Lynn DeWeese-Parkinson represented us at the Seattle Book Fair and the Oregon Book Fair, and we have advertisements in the programs of other book fairs around t

By: Lisa & Leon Martin Global Book Mart, http://www.gbmbooks.com, is pleased to announce the re-launching of our database. GBM is now accepting dealers to upload inventory. We are not charging listing fees at this time. There is a one-time set-up fee of $20.00. Additional premium services will be added in the next months. While these additions are being implemented to our services, no listing fees will be charged. Details are available at the website. Global Book Mart http://

Table of Contents Editor’s Notes the Interview: J. R. McWillians – ABooksearch.com Popshops Offers Merchants a New Deal The Interview: Andy Gutterman – MyOwnBookshop.com ChooseBooks.com Update Rhett Moran – BookAvenue Announcements Author Book Review: Debra L. Winegarten Author Book Review: Kevin Paglia Author Book Review: Jai Sen IOBA Q & A Column Frustrating Image Processing Roundtable Commonly Used Bookseller Abbreviations Book Fair Toolbox How an English Orphan Girl Becam

Dear Readers, I’m going to discontinue just relisting what is in any particular issue of the newsletter—you have the Index for that. Instead, I’ll touch on themes and what I find exciting in the current issue. We’ve got a lot in this issue about authors and their works. Some first-time authors and some who’ve been around a while. A common theme for them all, though, is promoting their own work, the pitfalls and virtues of self-publishing vs. traditional publishers, and the go