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First of a projected series on the various bookselling services. We interviewed Cathy Waters, one of the principals of the Advanced Book Exchange and Judy Kam their Director of Marketing at the ABE offices on the second floor of a newish building in a light industrial area of Victoria, British Columbia. The offices are a buzz of activity and ABE is clearly having difficulty fitting into them. They are not spending their money on lavish quarters. Tell us a little about how AB

IOBA is set up to be a smooth running and efficient forum and process for receiving member originated ideas and inputs and implementing the necessary legalities and organizational decisions. In theory. Committees receive and conceive of new ideas and needs within their area of authority, work them out into a proposal and sendthem up to the Board, which reviews and can either send the proposal back if we have questions about some of it before we feelcomfortable with taking it