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Current Agent: Cherry Weiner, Cherry Weiner Literary Agency Partial List of Published Works: “The Charm”, Integra Press, Phoenix, AZ, 1993, Hardcover “The Serpent Slayers”, Integra Press, Phoenix, 1994, Hardcover “The Hound Hunters”, Integra Press, Phoenix, AZ 1994 *appeared only as an uncorrected proof/advance reading copy “The Sand Dwellers”, Fedogan & Bremer, Minneapolis, 1998, Hardcover “The Repository”, Meisha Merlin Publishing, Decatur, GA, 1999, Trade Paperback “The Wa

Email/Contact Info: kfermoyle@earthlink.net, Phone: 818 346-9384 Current Publisher and/or Agent: 2 agents currently interested in repping for the Vietnam book: “Hawks, Doves And The Dragon”, no agent yet for incomplete mystery. I have never worked with an agent for my freelance non-fiction (mostly magazine articles, some ghostwritten for others). Sold my 1st two freelance articles (Sports Car Racing on Frozen Michigan Lakes) direct to editors in 1952 and never saw a need to c

The background is that I was a First Amendment lawyer for many years at the American Civil Liberties Union. By the mid-90’s it became clear to me that a lot of the censorship issues that we were confronting on a daily basis were premised on a widespread assumption (rarely analyzed or discussed in any depth) that we needed to have censorship to protect minors. Some people thought that any sexually explicit information in education, art, or any form of entertainment, was harmfu

Anirvan Chatterjee and Charlie Hsu, BookFinder.com To start off, Anirvan, you’ve been generous with information about yourself, somewhat generous with information about Charlie (let’s see if we can’t get you out and talking about yourself, Charlie) and very generous with information about BookFinder.com. If I may, though, I’m going to dig a bit deeper. You’re both twentysomethings living in a high tech area, based as you are in Berkeley, CA, doing high tech work and, in many

Don’t you just want to meet the punk who invented the concept of internet ‘feedback’? I mean WHAT WAS HE THINKING WITH? Obviously he wasn’t a vendor–possibly a buyer, but definitely disgruntled. In the real world…’scuse me, did I just say, ‘real world?’ mein gott, I earn my creditor payments from this stupid glass box; maybe I can’t beat it senseless but it’s most definitely real…in the ‘3-D world’ a transaction ends two ways, customer dances the mambo all the way out the doo

Tom Sawyer is an éminence grise of the Internet bookselling world. He is the creator of the UIEE format that has become the de facto industry standard, the developer of BookMaster, Record Manager and BookMate software — and now, the soon-to-be-released BookWriter. A man with bookselling in his blood (his mother is an antiquarian book dealer), Tom is one of the most knowledgeable, most capable — and most interesting! — people in the business. As one of the co-founders of Inter

Table of Contents From the Editor PopShops offers Booksellers a New Deal Michael Tokman – Choosebooks (ZVAB) P. Scott Brown – ABookCoOp (dba Tomfolio.com) Richard Weatherford & Marty Manley – ALIBRIS Brent James – Advance Book Exchange (ABE) Bibliodirect Opening Leo Harrison – Biblion.com Announcements IOBA Visits the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Lee Miller, author of “Roanoke” American Indian Authors & Literature Keeping Track Of A Changing Marketplace The Interview:

Before I get started telling you about what’s in this issue of The Standard, I’d like to recommend that you take a look at: http://www.compleatweb.com/bookinfo/ Eric Stephenson has put together an extremely helpful database of online venues for selling books, with links to information about listing fees, special fee offers, number of dealers, and number of books in their databases. We will be working with Eric to try to get more complete information for his database and we’ll