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From: LEO HARRISON URL: http://www.biblion.com 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 ????). Biblion.com is a natural extension of our shop in London’s Mayfair, where some 100 dealers display their stock. When our site was first launched in April 2000, we wanted to offer booksel

Glendale, CA International Book, Print and Paper Fair May 18 & 19, 2002 American Book Fairs, Inc. will hold the Glendale International Book, Print and Paper Fair on May 18 & 19, 2002, at the Glendale Civic Auditorium, 1401 No. Verdugo Rd., Glendale, California. The hours are Saturday 10 AM – 6 PM, Sunday 11 AM – 4 PM. 110 fine local, national and international dealers will exhibit and sell collectible, antiquarian and rare books, maps and prints. For more information: Phone:

By Maria Bustillos, Julie Fauble and Greg Williams On April 27th and 28th, UCLA hosted the 7th annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. As in previous years, the event featured scores of authors (noteworthy and otherwise), signing their works and just strolling around UCLA’s beautiful campus. Attendees could drop in on dozens of lectures, workshops and readings. The festival also featured hundreds of booths, with exhibitors from every aspect of the book industry, new and u

Email: leemillerbooks@twcny.rr.com By Shirley Bryant I became interested in the Lost Colony when I was living on Roanoke Island working on a completely separate project about the history of the Secotan Indian people. Especially during the winter when the island is deserted except for locals, there used to be a great, lonely, almost bleak feel that made the tragedies that occurred there that much more vivid. I liked that – it’s harder to get that feel there lately with so much

In the summer of 1977, I was taking classes in a writing program at Goddard College, a small school in the Vermont woods where Raymond Carver was teaching before he became famous and Richard Ford was one of Carver’s students. Young writers who visited that year included Tim O’Brien — who hadn’t yet published Going After Cacciato , his National Book Award winner — and Ann Beattie, whose first books had just recently been published. Trying to focus on writing makes one an appre

Current Trends in the Used Book Market By Susan Siegel Book Hunter Press Back in 1992 when David and I started Book Hunter Press, building a database of used book dealers was fairly straightforward. Dealers generally fit neatly into three categories: open shops, by appointment or chance dealers, and mail order only dealers. While there was some overlap between the categories, by and large, anyone interested in selling used books had three business models to choose from. Not a

By: Lee Miller, author of Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony. Andras did the maps for this book, which can be seen on his site: http://www.historyonmaps.com/ The difference is roughly similar to that between a music composer and a performer. A historical cartographer is the composer (combined with a director) who has a proper appreciation of historical events, their significance, context, time and location, and who puts these details that he deems relevant to a s

URL: http://www.gbmbooks.com What is your purpose in starting an 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 ????). Global Book Mart, in its new incarnation, is a continuation of our original philosophy and intent in launching Global Book Mart in 1999. We created a book database conceived by booksellers for the expres