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Finding inventory for an antiquarian book shop
There's a helpful article called "Beyond the Zero Sum Game" about
collecting inventory of rare books for your book store. See: http://www.americanaexchange.com/aem.../aemonthly.asp |
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Helpful?
Some nutbar who knew nothing about books, prices off the internet and sell library books on consignment? How exactly is this "helpful"? For whom? Or is this what it's all about these days? If so, count me out. I think I'll go sell toothpicks to people with no teeth, makes more sense than this bull****e. /mjt WB wrote: There's a helpful article called "Beyond the Zero Sum Game" about collecting inventory of rare books for your book store. See: http://www.americanaexchange.com/aem.../aemonthly.asp -- Michael John Thompson Thompson Rare Books 950 Fort Street Victoria, British Columbia Canada V8V 3K2 Telephone: 250-384-9977 http://www.mjtbooks.com ONLINE BOOKBUYERS: Tired of misdescribed books and incompetent booksellers? Then go to the site where the world's best professional antiquarian booksellers list their books: http://www.ilab-lila.com |
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Mjt wrote in message ...
Helpful? Some nutbar who knew nothing about books, prices off the internet and sell library books on consignment? How exactly is this "helpful"? For whom? Or is this what it's all about these days? If so, count me out. I think I'll go sell toothpicks to people with no teeth, makes more sense than this bull****e. /mjt The only problem with this is they didn't take it far enough. Ideally you'd have some high school kids do the cataloging and descriptions for you. Hire somebody to write a spam program to contact all libraries in the U.S. and you're set up for life!!! LOL. Of course the AMERICANAEXCHANGE also has an interesting article by the editor/publisher on how to buy books online. I beleive I can summarize... always buy the cheapest copy offered. So what do you expect from them? David David Holloway, Bookseller. |
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"hollowayd" wrote in message
om... The only problem with this is they didn't take it far enough. Ideally you'd have some high school kids do the cataloging and descriptions for you. Hire somebody to write a spam program to contact all libraries in the U.S. and you're set up for life!!! LOL. Of course the AMERICANAEXCHANGE also has an interesting article by the editor/publisher on how to buy books online. I beleive I can summarize... always buy the cheapest copy offered. So what do you expect from them? Yes, there are some problems with *Americana Exchange Monthly*. In that same article, Bruce McKinney says that you CAN'T save an eBay search that searches both title and description. That's funny--I've got dozens of such saved searches (some with email alerts, some without). AEM has had some good articles: they turned me on to Harold Nestler: http://americanaexchange.com/aemonth...?eid=38&type=A and reminded me about H.P. Kraus's *Rare Book Saga*, which I read just in time for the closing of Kraus's business: http://www.americanaexchange.com/aem...?eid=35&type=A But the heart of AE is their Americana database, fully searchable, combining hundreds of thousands of records from classical Americana bibliographies and--very innovatively--booksellers' catalogues. William Reese describes that he http://www.reeseco.com/papers/abr10.htm I joined and have profitably used the database--although they recently split the database into "Priced Records Database" and "Reference Database"--so now I have to do two searches instead of one. So much for user friendly. The addition of booksellers' records has been a great bonus, though--I've found lots of interesting early Catholic Americana that was (how shall we say) neglected by the classical Americana bibliographers. William M. Klimon http://www.gateofbliss.com |
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"William M. Klimon" wrote in message news:ko5Wb.3463$Yj.1148@lakeread02...
"hollowayd" wrote in message om... The only problem with this is they didn't take it far enough. Ideally you'd have some high school kids do the cataloging and descriptions for you. Hire somebody to write a spam program to contact all libraries in the U.S. and you're set up for life!!! LOL. Of course the AMERICANAEXCHANGE also has an interesting article by the editor/publisher on how to buy books online. I beleive I can summarize... always buy the cheapest copy offered. So what do you expect from them? Yes, there are some problems with *Americana Exchange Monthly*. In that same article, Bruce McKinney says that you CAN'T save an eBay search that searches both title and description. That's funny--I've got dozens of such saved searches (some with email alerts, some without). AEM has had some good articles: they turned me on to Harold Nestler: http://americanaexchange.com/aemonth...?eid=38&type=A and reminded me about H.P. Kraus's *Rare Book Saga*, which I read just in time for the closing of Kraus's business: http://www.americanaexchange.com/aem...?eid=35&type=A But the heart of AE is their Americana database, fully searchable, combining hundreds of thousands of records from classical Americana bibliographies and--very innovatively--booksellers' catalogues. William Reese describes that he http://www.reeseco.com/papers/abr10.htm I joined and have profitably used the database--although they recently split the database into "Priced Records Database" and "Reference Database"--so now I have to do two searches instead of one. So much for user friendly. The addition of booksellers' records has been a great bonus, though--I've found lots of interesting early Catholic Americana that was (how shall we say) neglected by the classical Americana bibliographers. William M. Klimon http://www.gateofbliss.com I like the AEM actually, and read their monthly quite frequently. (I once sold Mr. Nestler a wonderful handwritten diary about an attempt to bridge Niagara Falls even though he complained bitterly about the price).. I detect a strange anti-dealer bias in their editorial policy. Remember the 'the buyer own's the description' debate about book cataloging? Also their editorial about always buying the cheapest copy makes it look like dealers are sharks out to 'bite' collectors at every stage when I think that very, very few dealers take advantage of collectors. Maybe I'm just not high end enough. It's possible that dealers who handle five and six figure books routinely do 'overcharge'. But to be honest with you if I were a wealthy collector I wouldn't shop eBay for my First Folio. I'd be shopping with the high end dealers all the time...after all they do tend to have the best books. Actually, it rather reminds me of a local collector who always railed against prices charged for first editions. It was so obviously a case of champagne taste on a beer budget, that most of the dealers were very kind to this cranky fellow, and tried to offer him bargains.... Is their search engine still very cranky and strange? It looked to me like the database designers were stuck in the 1970's programming in DOS when I first checked it out.... David |
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hollowayd wrote: Of course the AMERICANAEXCHANGE also has an interesting article by the editor/publisher on how to buy books online. I beleive I can summarize... always buy the cheapest copy offered. -- Well, that *is* helpful. I knew I was doing something wrong. /m Michael John Thompson Thompson Rare Books 950 Fort Street Victoria, British Columbia Canada V8V 3K2 Telephone: 250-384-9977 http://www.mjtbooks.com |
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