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AE Monthly

Articles - August 2007 Issue

 
"You Can't Stop Us": Walking Down a Dark Internet Lane

- By Renee Roberts

by Renée Magriel Roberts A few weeks ago I was innocently searching for something or other on ABE, and quite by accident a doctoral dissertation by Renée Magriel Roberts called The Clock and the Rose: Time and Self--Transformation in the Romance of the Rose and the Divine Comedy turned up for sale. My doctoral dissertation that is. I was kind of surprised, since although we are publishers, we haven't gotten around to publishing my own...

  
  • Books and Information Go Their Separate Ways

    - By Bruce McKinney

    By Bruce McKinney Books until recently have been the primary form for preserving and distributing information. They were typically inexpensive, compact and easily organized. ...

  • Bookseller Sentenced to 15 Months for Theft

    - By Michael Stillman

    By Michael Stillman A Philadelphia bookseller was sentenced to 15 months in prison on July 12 after pleading guilty to stealing 146 documents from the...

  • Herschel V. Jones: Documented Obsession

    - By Bruce McKinney

    By Bruce McKinney Serious collectors of the century past seemed to live on a scale rarely approached today. Collecting books was one of their...

  • AE Services Part 3: Current Price Estimator

    - By Michael Stillman

    By Michael Stillman This month we look at one of the Americana Exchange's most useful tools, its current price estimator. It updates values of prices...

  • An Auction in Indiana August 9th

    - By Bruce McKinney

    By Bruce McKinney Once in a while an unusual and entirely unexpected auction occurs in the world of books, manuscripts and ephemera. Even more...

  • Bookends: A Play About Two Booksellers

    - By Michael Stillman

    By Michael Stillman It's not often that booksellers become the subject of a theatrical play, and a musical no less, so the production of Bookends...

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