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AE Introduces a Listing Service [without the standard charges] - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney Today on AE you'll find a new listing site for books, manuscripts and ephemera. We call it Books for Sale. It's a fresh effort to increase sales and lower costs for buyers and sellers of printed materials. In its conception it is simple: provide a neutral place for buyers and sellers to find each other. Create no barriers, build no walls, charge no commissions, broaden searches to...

AE Introduces a Listing Service [without the standard charges]

- By Bruce McKinney

By Bruce McKinney Today on AE you'll find a new listing site for books, manuscripts and ephemera. We call it Books for Sale. It's a fresh effort to increase sales and lower costs for buyers and sellers of printed materials. In its conception it is simple: provide a neutral place for buyers and sellers to find each other. Create no barriers, build no walls, charge no commissions, broaden searches to...


Alibris Returns Returns To Their Sellers (And Opens Up Direct Contact) - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman The world's second largest used/old bookselling site recently announced some major changes in the way they do business. It is something of a...	Retirement is a Four Letter Word - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney On turning 60 -- Sixty I'm told is kind of old but I beg to differ. From where I sit, and...
University of California Library Joins Google Book Search - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman Search engine giant Google scored a major coup last month in its controversial effort to digitize the world's books when the University...	Thinking About a Website? This Might Be the Time. - By Renee Roberts By Renée Magriel Roberts Our internet-based company, Rose's Books, has been going without its own website. I know what you're thinking: the shoemaker's kids have...
A New "Phishing" Expedition No One Should Believe - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman We have occasionally written about "phishing" expeditions, those ubiquitous emails we all get trying to con valuable information from us. From the...	Sacramento Antiquarian Book Fair September 16th - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney As he has for thirteen years Bill Ewald of Argus Books is again hosting the Sacramento Antiquarian Book Fair. This year sixty...
Biblio Reopens Its Rare Book Room - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman Biblio.com recently announced the reopening of its Rare Book Room. This is a nice feature for those whose interest is collectible books....	Dawson Ephemera Auction September 29th - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney Glen Dawson, the consummate bookman and bibliophile, has sent Part II of his collection of early Californiana and Los Angeles ephemera to...
The Fate of Their Country. A Look Forward and Back - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman The Civil War may be the most avidly collected period of American history. The twists and turns of this horrible, internecine conflict...	Bookseller Catalogues Reviewed In Section Two This month we have seven catalogue reviews in AE Monthly's Section Two. Extensive, though diverse collections of books will be found in catalogues from Martayan...
Rare and Important Books from Martayan Lan By Michael Stillman Martayan Lan is known as one of the premier map sellers in the world. Therefore, it was a bit of a surprise to...	Inscribed Books from James Cummins Bookseller By Michael Stillman The 96th catalogue from James Cummins Bookseller is entitled Inscribed. This is a collection of just over one hundred works that have been...
The South, Slavery, and More from David Lesser Antiquarian Books By Michael Stillman The latest catalogue from David Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books is headed The South, Slavery, The Civil War, Reconstruction, Afro-Americana. Lesser has a knack...	"Rotating" First Editions from Between The Covers Rare Books By Michael Stillman The most recent offering from Between The Covers Rare Books is A Selection of Books from the Collection of Paul Keller. The late...
Summer Miscellany from Bauman Rare Books By Michael Stillman Bauman Rare Books recently issued a Summer Miscellany, a collection of almost 500 items that can best be described as, well, miscellaneous. There...	Literature from the William Reese Company By Michael Stillman The William Reese Company takes a short break from its usual focus on Americana to offer a collection of Literature in its 247th...
The Wild West from Gene W. Baade By Michael Stillman Gene W. Baade has issued Catalogue 806 of Books On The West. With a very few exceptions, that's the American West, and most...	.