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Better World Books: What other dealers can learn from the new model - By Susan Halas By Susan Halas The editor tells me that what AE readers, especially AE readers who are booksellers, want to know is about ways to make more money. So while there are many different ways to examine Better World Books, one of the most controversial companies in the bookselling pantheon, this article will stick to what it is, what it does, and what others in the book trade can learn from them. Better World Books - What...

Better World Books: What other dealers can learn from the new model

- By Susan Halas

By Susan Halas The editor tells me that what AE readers, especially AE readers who are booksellers, want to know is about ways to make more money. So while there are many different ways to examine Better World Books, one of the most controversial companies in the bookselling pantheon, this article will stick to what it is, what it does, and what others in the book trade can learn from them. Better World Books - What...


A Misstep and My Apology - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney On October 8th we pointed the Americana Exchange to a new server configuration. We felt reasonably certain that the transition to the...	Local Group Fights Privatization of Their Library - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman A group of citizens from Santa Clarita, California, is fighting back against the city's plan to turn operation of its public library over...
The American Experience: 1630-1890: A Collection - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney This article pertains to a collection of early, often important Americana I've consigned to auction at Bonham's in New York on December...	Risk Management for Booksellers - By Renee Roberts by Renée Magriel Roberts Example of risk management: A NASA model showing areas at high risk from impact for the International Space Station. I first ran...
BookFinder Issues List of the 100 Most Sought After Books - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman BookFinder.com has released its annual list of the most sought after books on their site. In the past, they have given us top...	Barnes & Nobles Announces Nook Color; will Amazon also join the fray? - By Thomas McKinney By Tom McKinney Last month both Amazon and Barnes & Noble made headlines in the world of e-books, although for entirely separate reasons. On the 22nd,...
Antiquarian Auctions Comes to America - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman Antiquarian Auctions, the South African based online rare book auction house, announced that they will begin running auctions based in the United States...	Daniel Crouch Rare Books: Catalogue One - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney Another dealer enters the fray. Ho hum? Perhaps not. Daniel Crouch, who for many years was associated with Bernard Shapero...
Children's Reading Habits Surveyed: Good News or Bad? - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman A new study from children's and educational book publisher Scholastic Corporation concerning reading in the digital age offers some hopeful news along with...	The Civil War to be Re-fought Online (courtesy of the Rosenbach) - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman On November 6, 1860, American voters went to the polls. Their choices assured the most important changes in American history would soon take...
Numbers Matter - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney The Americana Exchange Database, the AED, as we go to press, has 2,896,494 records, a hundred thousand more than just a month ago....	14 Catalogues Reviewed in Section 2 There are 14 new catalogues reviewed in Section 2 this month. Travel is the topic for Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books, while it is travel...
Islands from Helen R. Kahn By Michael Stillman Helen R. Kahn and Associates have released their 79th catalogue: Islands. If you are thinking tropical paradise, perhaps they are, but more often...	Alaska, the Arctic and California from the Argonaut Book Shop By Michael Stillman The Argonaut Book Shop of San Francisco, California, has issued a catalogue of Recent Acquisitions, Alaska, Arctic, California. Autumn 2010. That may seem...
Travel, Americana, and Natural History from Donald Heald Rare Books By Michael Stillman Donald Heald Rare Books recently printed A Selection of Fine Books for their participation in the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair. The New York...	Old West Books from Old West Books By Michael Stillman Old West Books has issued Catalog 29 of books about just what you'd expect. It offers a nice mix of contemporary, highly collectible...
The Bookseller's Cabinet from Jeff Weber Rare Books By Michael Stillman Jeff Weber Rare Books has published their catalogue #163: Bookseller's Cabinet. There is much to be found on a variety of subjects...	Historic Documents from the Raab Collection By Michael Stillman The Raab Collection, of Philadelphia, has issued its latest selection of historic manuscripts and documents in its Catalog 65. Raab specializes in documents...
Science and its Development from B & L Rootenberg Rare Books By Michael Stillman B & L Rootenberg Rare Books has published their 12th catalogue, Fine Books. Science, Medicine, Natural History, and Early Printing. This is not...	Film, Literature and More from James Pepper Rare Books By Michael Stillman James Pepper Rare Books has published their Catalogue 196. Their specialty is material related to film and theater, literature, science and detective fiction,...
Sporting Books from James Cummins Bookseller By Michael Stillman James Cummins Bookseller recently issued a catalogue of Sporting Books. There are lots of sporting books around, as attested by the over 800...	Book Arts from the Veatchs By Michael Stillman The Veatchs Arts of the Book has released its latest collection of the book arts in Catalogue 67. The Veatchs offer books as...
Inexpensive Americana from David Lesser Antiquarian Books By Michael Stillman David M. Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books has issued another in their series of Inexpensive Americana, this being Part 15. The formula is typical...	Travel and More from Bestebreurtje Rare Books By Michael Stillman The 142nd catalogue from Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books comes with the brief title, Travel. There is actually more than just travel here....
Latin American and Iberian Bibliography from Katterskill Books By Michael Stillman Kaaterskill Books, the rural upstate New York bookseller that comes up with surprising catalogues for a dealer in such an out of the...	Books of Classical Antiquity from Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta By Michael Stillman Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta of Amsterdam has issued their Catalogue 102 Classical Antiquity (A-K). There are obviously lots of works about classical antiquity as...