| Essays in the IOBA Standard |
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| Several pieces by Joe Perlman have appeared in the Journal of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA).
Enjoy!
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| Books, Books Everywhere, But Not a Page to Read, or,
a Book Dealer’s Travels in Spain (Fall 2006) |
Profile of Joe Perlman (Fall 2006) |
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| Essays from LIABDA Newsletters |
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| Joe Perlman, owner of Mostly Useful Fictions, is secretary of the Long
Island Book Dealers Association (LIABDA). In many issues of the LIABDA newsletter, he includes a
short essay on book buying. LIABDA members were enjoying his essays so
much that we decided to put them up on the web for all to read.
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| Spring 2005: Embracing the Unexpected
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A Dollar A Dream |
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My Mother Was Right, or
“You can’t make a living from Poetry” |
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One Skis, the
Other Doesn’t or, Booking in Vermont |
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One Still Skis, the
Other Still Doesn’t or, Vermont Redux |
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| (back issues to come) |
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| Confessions of a Novice Bookman |
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| The following articles, about the start of Mostly Useful
Fictions, originally appeared in BookNotes in 1998 and 1999. |
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| Part One:
What's in a Name? |
| Part Two: What
to Buy? What to Keep? What to Sell? |
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