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California Proposition 65 Warning

Among the more ridiculous things eBay has forced upon us is the California Proposition 65 warning. For some reason, eBay expects us to know every component of every thing we sell and how it might affect the groundwater a hundred and eleventy-seven ye...

On author's deaths and the effect on their book prices ...

I know this is a rather morbid topic, but I don't think any booksellers can deny that there seems to be an association between the death of an author and the subsequent demand for their books. I think it might be helpful if we, as booksellers, inform...

Laura Ingalls Wilder's Name Removed From Book Award

Little House On The Controversy: Laura Ingalls Wilder's Name Removed From Book Award A division of the American Library Association voted unanimously Saturday to strip Laura Ingalls Wilder's name from a major children's literature award over concerns...

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Ebay Global Shipping Program

. Ebay Global Shipping Program Has anyone used it? If so, what is your opinion?We recently decided to give the Global Shipping Program (GSP) a try after another book went missing in the black hole of South America. Although we don't sell many books t...

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Ebay allowing fraudulent sellers to continue to sell on ebay

I recently purchased some homeschooling material on ebay and then received the item from a company with overnight shipping. I hadn't purchased from that company, the order said it was billed to me, and ebay showed the item I had purchased from the se...

If money were no object, what book would you buy?

Those We Leave Behind by L. D. Mitchell at The Private Library"If money were no object, what one book would you most like to add to your private library?This writer [L. D. Mitchell] has posed that question to a great many book collectors over the pas...

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Hemingway's little-known war story published for first time

Ernest Hemingway's little-known war story from 1956 published for first timeThe themes and trappings are familiar for an Ernest Hemingway narrative: Paris, wartime, talk of books and wine and the scars of battle. But the story itself has been little ...

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I Remember ...

... when the BSB (Booksellers' Board) was the first place I'd log into every morning to see what had transpired overnight (and there was usually a LOT that had transpired). I can't complain about the relative lack of activity because I, myself, have ...

Booksellers Old and New

So I followed my Chrome bookmark to get to this page and I ended up on the Booksellers Old and New page. My first thought was what is this? Why am I here? And pretty much who are these people? (I did respond to a post that referenced Bob Dylan.)I tho...

Red rot treatment recommendations

We have some older volumes effected with red rot that we may have to move offsite soon. Given their fragility and condition, we were thinking of treating them before they are moved. I was curious if anyone has had positive experience or recommendatio...

Resolved! A Long Shot request

Since there are a few dedicated research folks here, and I've run into a dead end (or rather a denial of service attack from Google) I'm looking for something, anything, on the "LORE SCOUTS OF AMERICA" not Boy Scouts of America, which is ALL I get fr...

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