Rod Collins

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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I could not help but smile at this from the ABA.
It is in response to what they consider the threat of reproduction or facsimilie dust jackets.
Being standard bearers for the trade and upholding all that is good and proper they came out with new regulations for their members:

• “ABA members must mark all facsimile dustwrappers indelibly and that marking must be clearly visible in normal light.”
• “Facsimile dust-wrappers may not be exhibited at ABA book fairs.”

Presumably then, having reprint jackets restored to look like first edition jackets is still OK.
Adding signed pages from reprints into rebound first editions is also OK, just don’t sell it with a facsimilie dustwrappper.
Not that any ABA dealers would ever do any of the above, of course

Good to know the ABA are keeping an eye on standards, we can all sleep easier in out beds tonight

ABEbooks got some much needed publicity in the May 2006 issue of the men’s style magazine GQ.
Not sure what some of the booksellers would make of parts of it but Read the rest of this entry »

It seems the old ebay Paypal scams are finally starting to arrive at abebooks. With so many booksellers hopelessly outdated Read the rest of this entry »