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Nine is the Charm - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney Nine is the Charm The Americana Exchange begins its ninth year with the release of AE Monthly today. I never thought achieving success for this project would be easy, in part because we joined the flow of goods and services migrating to the internet well before the rare books, manuscripts and ephemera audience was prepared to prefer it over traditional venues and alternatives. In 2002 the trade, such as the aggregation of...

Nine is the Charm

- By Bruce McKinney

By Bruce McKinney Nine is the Charm The Americana Exchange begins its ninth year with the release of AE Monthly today. I never thought achieving success for this project would be easy, in part because we joined the flow of goods and services migrating to the internet well before the rare books, manuscripts and ephemera audience was prepared to prefer it over traditional venues and alternatives. In 2002 the trade, such as the aggregation of...


Bookstore For Sale: Barnes & Noble - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman Barnes and Noble, America's largest bricks and mortar bookseller, made two potentially important announcements this past month. The word "potential" must be used...	New Color E-Readers Announced - Do They Stand a Chance? - By Thomas McKinney By Tom McKinney Until Apple's iPad was released there were few, if any mobile devices (other than smartphones) that featured both a color screen and...
Neal Auction Company: Taking Katrina by Storm - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney Five years after Katrina ravaged New Orleans, the city has substantially recovered. Life has returned to a semblance of normal, those parts...	Protecting Your Rights to Books You Consign - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman Last month, we ran a wonderful story about a book that was placed on consignment with dealer Jeffrey Thomas (click here to read...
Reference Books Can Help Set Value - Zoschak class earns a following in the trade - By Susan Halas By Susan Halas Why do book dealers need bibliographies? Why do book buyers and collectors need them too? Aren't those things that only benefit librarians and...	Brought to You by the Letters A and B - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney Material for the AED: A million dealer records The AED, the Americana Exchange Database, the largest collection of auction records for the books,...
A Court Decision in a Century-Old Battle for a Library - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman A decision came down early last month from the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., concerning an almost century-old dispute for ownership of...	Last Month's E-Book Headline Reversed! The Publishers Strike Back, Forcing Andrew Wylie's Hand - By Thomas McKinney By Tom McKinney Last month I wrote about how literary agent Andrew Wylie had struck an exclusive e-book deal with Amazon.com. It looked to be a...
An Auction Comes into Focus - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney An Auction Coming into View The dog days of August, when the lucky and entitled sip Margaritas and soak up rays, are also the...	What Your Children Don't Know - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman The annual list of things this year's entering college freshman class either does not know, or has always assumed to be true, has...
Seven New Catalogues Reviewed This Month The number of catalogues printed during the heart of summer wanes, as both booksellers and their customers take off for vacation. This month, we received...	More Film and Literature from James Pepper Rare Books By Michael Stillman James Pepper Rare Books has issued Catalogue 195. The latest in their almost monthly releases, it follows the norm, offering works related to...
More "Books About Books" from Oak Knoll By Michael Stillman Oak Knoll Books has released their Catalogue 294 of Books About Books. Oak Knoll defines "books about books" as "a large field encompassing...	Travel Books from Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books By Michael Stillman Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books has published a catalogue of Travel 2010. The date is for the catalogue, not the travels, as these...
A Summer Miscellany from Michael Thompson Books By Michael Stillman Michael Thompson Books of Los Angeles has issued a Summer Miscellany, Consisting of 100 Books [101 actually], Mostly Recent Acquisitions. This is truly...	The Desert Southwest and More from Back of Beyond Books By Michael Stillman Back of Beyond Books has issued Rare Book Catalogue #3. This Moab, Utah, based bookseller features books related to the Western Slope and...
Nautical Books from the Columbia Trading Co. By Michael Stillman The Columbia Trading Company of West Barnstable, Massachusetts, has issued its Catalog 148 of Nautical Books and Artifacts. It is filled with works...	Rare Medical and Ophthalmology Books from Jeff Weber Rare Books By Michael Stillman Jeff Weber Rare Books is offering a catalogue of Rare Medical and Ophthalmology Books, Including Early Gynecology and Obstetrics. The latter part of...