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From: Bob Fleck and Jelle Samshuijzen URL: http://www.ilab-lila.com/ (EDITOR’S NOTE: PLEASE NOTE THAT ILAB IS A MEMBERS’ ONLY DATABASE, BUT INFORMATION WILL GIVEN AT THE END OF THIS INTERVIEW ABOUT HOW TO JOIN THE ORGANIZATION.) 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 ????). Bob

In nuclear physics, a half life is the period of time required for the decay or breakdown of half of the atoms in a sample of some specific radioactive isotope. Plutonium 238, for example, has a half life of about eighty-seven years, while Uranium 238 takes about 4.5 billion years to decrease by half. (If you are thinking about relocating near a war zone, leaky reactor, or abandoned mine, numbers like these can come in handy.) I would venture that most ephemera has an average

Table of Contents Note from the Editor Joe Spoor of BookQuarters Tom Biro – Bibliology Limited Paul Anderson – Books & Collectibles Jeff Moore – UsedBookCentral Jan & Roger O’Connor and Lynn DeWeese-Parkinson – Bibliodirect 2002 Los Angeles Book Fair IOBA and Firsts: a match made in Book Heaven December 2001 : IOBA Seminar Report from Attendees IOBA Q & A Column Day in the Life: The Wall of Unavailability The Grand Pooh-Bah: An Interview with Lynn deWeese-Parkinson Sam Gottli

We’re starting a series with this issue of interviews with all the online commercial databases (although we have previously interviewed ABE, Alibris, and Antiqbook individuallywe’ll redo these after a bit to update them). In this issue, we have interviews from five of the newer databases (BookQuarters, Bibliology, Books & Collectibles, UsedBookCentral, and BiblioDirect)we’ve asked the same questions of each, so you’ll be able to compare answers from them and see where they di

Editor: 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 ????). A: My purpose all along has been to try and unite booksellers so that they have some ability to bargain for better prices and services online. When attempts at working with existing organizations failed, or they had a differe

Editor: 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 ????). A: A few years ago there were three major book databases on which dealers could list their stock under their own names http://www.bibliocity.com, http://www.bibliofind.com and http://www.abe.com. When one of the best of these

Editor: 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 ????). A: In Australia we had Bibliocity.com and this was sold to Alibris and no longer exists, so a large number of Australian Antiquarians asked me to build another to replace them. Editor: Is this a long-term commitment on your p

Editor: 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 ????). A: Usedbookcentral’s goal is to fill the void that was created when Bibliofind (God rest its soul) was absorbed into Amazon. We wish to continue what was a very popular format, a simple and secure platform to connect the boo