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ABE -- To The Summit And Back - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman Abebooks held their much ballyhooed dealer summit early last month. It's not clear what their purpose was in holding the summit, but if it was to relieve the tensions that have developed over the past year between the site and some of its dealers, it was probably not a huge success. Abe started with an announcement that they would be taking over the processing of all credit card orders made through the...

ABE -- To The Summit And Back

- By Michael Stillman

By Michael Stillman Abebooks held their much ballyhooed dealer summit early last month. It's not clear what their purpose was in holding the summit, but if it was to relieve the tensions that have developed over the past year between the site and some of its dealers, it was probably not a huge success. Abe started with an announcement that they would be taking over the processing of all credit card orders made through the...


Creating an Ignore List of eBay Sellers - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney Over the past year I've seen a proliferation of bogus descriptions in the eBay listings. Anyone who searches eBay for books and...	Creative Book Packaging Creates Repeat Buyers - By Renee Roberts By Renee Magriel Roberts Last month we looked at the development of collections as a means for increasing the profitability of books in our inventory....
April 18, 1906 - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney Listen Many people remember and many more will remember, if only briefly, the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. It occurred at 5:13 in...	Sticky Fingered Bibliophiles Caught - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney Run a Google search for Victorville and "rare books" and you are going to be drilling more dry holes than a...
Profiting From Book Theft - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman Crime doesn't pay. Or does it? The book world found itself tossed into the seas of constitutional law when a Kentucky judge...	Texas State Historical Society Auction - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney Birthday wishes are in order as the old Texas dame the Texas State Historical Society celebrates its 110th birthday on March 2nd...
ALA Study Says Library Use Growing - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman The American Library Association issued the results of a study last week which indicates that library use is actually up over the...	Books About, and Not About, Books, from Oak Knoll By Michael Stillman Oak Knoll Books has issued catalogue number 271 in its specialty, "books about books." This field covers such topics as bibliography, binding,...
African and Other Travels from Allsworth Rare Books By Michael Stillman Allsworth Rare Books of London has released a most intriguing catalogue of Travel and Exploration. This, their fourth catalogue, is highlighted by...	Historic America From Michael Brown Rare Books By Michael Stillman Michael Brown Rare Books has published its 40th catalogue of Printed and Manuscript Americana. There is a wide spectrum of...
African Americana from Between The Covers Rare Books By Michael Stillman Between The Covers Rare Books' latest catalogue is one of African American History and Literature. This one is a bit different from...	A Short List From Antiquariaat Forum By Michael Stillman The Antiquariaat Forum has published a Short Title List with recent acquisitions and a selection from our stock. What this is more...
American Adventure, Exploration &c. From Arthur H. Clark By Michael Stillman We recently received catalogue number 925 from The Arthur H. Clark Company of Spokane, Washington. They have been in the business now...	Mexico and Spanish Americana from Libreria de Antano By Michael Stillman Libreria de Antano has published the list of books that it brought to the recent ABAA show in Los Angeles. Many booksellers...
Latin American History from Plaza Books By Michael Stillman Plaza Books of Santa Rosa, California, has issued its latest list, number 16, of books and associated material relating to Latin America. Most...	New Old Items From Manhattan Rare Books By Michael Stillman The Manhattan Rare Book Company has released an email catalogue of its newest items. Manhattan's catalogues cover a variety of fields, from...