What is YOUR favorite spot to do online bookselling? Amazon Marketplace? Amazon Auctions? Z Shops? eBay? Half.com? Yahoo Auctions? Other? Why? Regards, Michael

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Greetings all: I note most authors these days sign with a 'Sharpie' or similar instrument, instead of a ball point or fountain pen. With all the debate about an inscribed book being better than a signed book, since there is more writing to be studied, wouldn't a pen be better than a sharpie, as...

At the California Antiquarian Book Fair, I saw a copy of Adam's Rib by Graves. The publisher is Trianon Press in a signed limited edition of 250. I liked it. I resisted then. When I looked it up, there appears to be an American Edition by Thomas Yoseloff limited to 100. Can anyone tell me...

How can a bookseller *possibly* make a profit on selling a hardcover book for a penny?! I just cannot get over seeing this on eBay, Amzon, Yahoo!, etc. Your thoughts? Michael

Yeah, I'll get blasted for the mercenary aspect of my question, but when I buy books I have to "put a value" on each individual book I look at ( I didn't win the $365 million Powerball and only have a budgeted amount to spend on books)...so here's the question: How much value does a signed...

It's always painful to read about someone intentionally setting fire to a bookstore. http://www.10news.com/news/7167777/detail.html

Quite the quagmire out there. So, how DOES one tell a TRUE first printing from the book club edition? Michael

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What's everyone's take on the Amazon Auctions and Zshops? Any good, or a waste of time? Michael