Well, the Boston book fairs are in the rear view mirror, I’m down to my last turkey sandwich, all the wet paper has been removed from the flooded basement and is getting wetter in the dumpster, Maritime List 266 is nearly finished and, best of all, my 2019 Dayminder just came in the mail from […] More >>
Archives for November 2018
This Time It’s All About Me
Or, as several of my colleagues have observed, it’s always about me, with a thin veneer of news from the trade applied, observing the pretense of modesty. So let’s proceed on that basis. The 2018 version of the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair was one of the best-run affairs in recent memory. Betty Fulton, Julie […] More >>
“Love That Dirty Water”
Taking a breather while packing for the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair. I think I did my first one in 1986. I’d joined the ABAA that year, and I remember Doug Harding counseling me in an unusually avuncular manner to exhibit in Boston. “You can make a lot of money there,” he told me. “Last […] More >>
So Proud of My Colleagues!
ABE is a major Internet bookselling site. In 2008 it was purchased by Amazon. I quit them years ago because they weren’t a fit for my quirky business, but many of the people in the trade depend on them as a reliable source of income – even as they ratchet up the percentage they gobble […] More >>