Rod Collins

ABE books are launching a system for rating the booksellers on the site.
Fiasco would be the word that springs to my mind next … well, let’s see
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Book collectors tend to be very honest, hence the lack of so called “lost parcels” that so many sellers experience in other markets.
Some are so honest that they restore one’s faith in human nature !
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This post is about the folly of trying to make a living from selling books
WARNING ! If you are thinking of starting as a bookseller - don’t bother !
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This is something of a half story, it appears to be confusing to say the least.
Somebody who sells books on e bay is being sued in court by the publisher Harper Collins
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Tomorrow sees sees the start of the January York Book Fair, an event once regularly attended by Goldeneye.
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We have an example of an absolutely 100% genuine Ian Fleming signature. It is in a first edition of Thunderball and was signed at a branch of WH Smiths in Waterloo station, London.
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Sell Books in Lincolnshire
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Are books Dead ?
Obviously not completely but are they on their out?
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Regular readers will know that Tuesday is reserved solely for one purpose. Last week I whined about being derailed, well things are back to normal, here is a brief report.
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Further to the story we brought you about Stolen books on ebay a judge has now ordered the police and the library to track down the books still missing
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The excellent site for independent booksellers and first edition dealers, biblio.com, have announced they are relaunching their Rare Book Room.
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The genuises over at abebooks have introduced yet another outstanding site enhancement
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On August the 21st 2006 the Royal Mail postal system will change.
Here is a quick and dirty guide for booksellers Read the rest of this entry »

A first edition of Casino Royale by Ian Fleming is theoretically a rare book, especialy so signed
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We gets loads of scam emails and attempts to defraud but Read the rest of this entry »

Book Dealer the trade magazine for the secondhand book trade is to close its doors after 35 years.
Since the unstoppable march of the internet the magazine has got thinner and thinner and decline looked, sadly, inevitable.

The backbone of the publication was always its wants match system. Booksellers advertising for and responding to book searches and wants.
The internet and sites such as abebooks and ebay have rendered this system redundant for most.

It’s a great pity when yet another pillar of the secondhand and antiquarian book business collapses (how many are left holding the roof up ?) but such seems the way of things today.

On a slightly brighter note there are, apparantly, rumours of a possible saviour.
Time will tell

jrr tolkien homecoming of beorhtnoth

The misery seems to continue over at abebooks with more strange technical problems Read the rest of this entry »

The days of bargain books have not quite gone Read the rest of this entry »

Good for Books Horncastle Bookshop

We may start a series of reviews for secondhand and antiquarian bookstores
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