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2004 Archives of
The BookThinker Newsletter


ISSN 1547-9501

#9, 5 January 2004

  1. From the Editor
  2. An Introduction to Book Grading - Order Out of Chaos: A Proposal
  3. Book Grading - Part I: Spotting and Describing Defects
  4. Common Myths (and Dubious Practices) - of Book Grading
  5. Anatomy of a Flashpoint - Pigeon Magic

#10, 19 January 2004

  1. From the Editor
  2. The Bad News About Signed Books - A Visit with Old Tom the Orchid Man
  3. Astronauts and Autopens - Silver Threads and Golden Needles
  4. Is Your Signature Genuine?
  5. What To Do If You Think Your Signature is Genuine
  6. Big Dumb Objects - The Art of the Artifact in Science Fiction

#11, 2 February 2004

  1. From the Editor
  2. Familiar Strangers - Taking Book Buying to the Top
  3. Stolen Any Good Books Lately? - Moral Clarity at the FOL Sale

#12, 16 February 2004

  1. From the Editor
  2. Book Power Made Easy - The Case for Flashpoints
  3. Flashpoints - What They Are and How to Use Them
  4. Building Your Flashpoint Library
  5. Urban Fantasy - Worlds Within Worlds

#13, 1 March 2004

  1. From the Editor
  2. Pain and Suffering - The Dark Side of Collecting
  3. Bookselling in Greek - How to Paddle the Competition
  4. Introducing Subscriber's Page - Premium Content FAQ
  5. Update Announcements
  6. Book History - Bookends and Beginnings

#14, 15 March 2004

  1. From the Editor
  2. The Stillness Of Trout - How to Shop FOL Sales
  3. By Any Other Name - How to Profit from Pseudonyms
  4. Premium Content Begins Today - Learn More

#15, 29 March 2004

  1. From the Editor
  2. How to Photograph Books - Part III - How to Take Pictures of Books
  3. Papyrus - And the Birth of Books

#16, 12 April 2004

  1. From the Editor
  2. Selling National Park Publications - A Brief Study
  3. Three Packaging Tricks for Booksellers

#17, 26 April 2004

  1. Hard Times Ahead - for eBay Sellers?
  2. Making A Stand - How to Beat the eBay System
  3. Living in Parallel - Alternative Universes in Science Fiction

#18, 10 May 2004

  1. From the Editor
  2. AB Bookman Redux - A New Kid in Old Clothes
  3. Hydra and the Second Labor of Hercules - The Importance of Timing in Bookselling

#19, 24 May 2004

  1. From the Editor
  2. How to Photograph Books - IV: Image Editing
  3. Winning and Losing at Bookselling - The Importance of Stepping Up to the Plate

#20, 7 June 2004

  1. From the Editor
  2. Immortal Encyclopædia? - The Remarkable, Lasting Force of Britannica's 11th
  3. Book Buying for the Blind - The Evidence of Things Not Seen
  4. Plus a new review on Bookshelf [All There Is To Know]

#21, 21 June 2004

  1. From the Editor
  2. Why Boookseller's Ain't Rich - The Hard, Hard Numbers and What They Mean
  3. Statistics and the Used Book Market - A Difficult Marriage
  4. Kim Stanley Robinson - Good Things Come in Threes
  5. Organizing Books for Pleasure and Profit

#22, 5 July 2004

  1. From the Editor
  2. Arts & Crafts in America - A World Class Niche
  3. Introducing ... Gold Edition
  4. Update Announcements
  5. Profits in Public Domain Publications - Marketing Angles You Might Not Have Thought Of

#23, 19 July 2004

  1. From the Editor
  2. Finding the Time to Save Time - Adding Keywords to Your Sales Descriptions (without Tears)
  3. BookThink's Scanning Jig - How to Make It
  4. BookThink's Premium Content - Super Niche - Profiting From the Arts & Crafts Movement - details
  5. Update Announcements
  6. We've Met the Aliens - And They Are Us!

#24, 2 Aug. 2004

  1. From the Editor
  2. Beans and Bookcases -An Interview with Henry Petroski
  3. The Mystery of The Collectible Nancy Drew
  4. Book Topics - All In The Name - Authors' Names and Signatures
  5. Betting Yesterday on Tomorrow - Ann Nolan Clark and the Native American Picture Books of Change

#25, 16 Aug. 2004

  1. From the Editor
  2. Building a Bookselling Reference Library - Part I: First Edition Identification
  3. Collecting the Collector - The SF Short Story Anthologies of Groff Conklin
  4. An Interview with Bud Webster - Author of 41 Above the Rest: An Index and Checklist for the Anthologies of Groff Conklin
  5. A Bibliographer's Job Is Never Done
  6. A Bookseller's Guide to Using the Internet - Pricing Inventory - Part I - Where to Search for Comps
  7. 1 Year Anniversary

#26, 2 Sept. 2004

  1. From the Editor
  2. A Study of Dorothy L. Sayers
  3. BookTopics - First Editions - A Primer
  4. Misnamed Books - An Interview with Allen and Pat Ahearn
  5. BookThink's Gold Edition - Vintage Era Mass Market Paperback Cover Art

#27, 20 Sept. 2004

  1. From the Editor
  2. Building a Bookselling Reference Library - Part II: Talking the Bookselling Talk
  3. How To Write Effective Book Descriptions
  4. Update Announcements
  5. The Hugo Award - A Universe of Flashpoints

#28, 4 Oct. 2004

  1. From the Editor
  2. ScoutPal, And the Dumbing Down of Bookselling? - More Important Than Ever: Flashpoints
  3. BookTopics - Photographing Books - Effective Photos for Online Bookselling
  4. BookThink's Gold Edition - Golden Guides - Big Profits in Little Packages
  5. ScoutPal Update
  6. Update Announcements
  7. Building a Bookselling Reference Library - Part III: Price Guides and How to Use Them

#29, 18 Oct. 2004

  1. From the Editor
  2. Building a Bookselling Reference Library - Part IV: Online Resources- Questia
  3. A Collector's View of Dashiell Hammett
  4. Saturday in the Park - A Day at the National Book Festival

#30, 1 Nov. 2004

  1. From the Editor
  2. ScoutPal Update - Part II
  3. BookThink's Gold Edition - Pure Profit in Impure Places - Banking Big Money on Banned Books
  4. Book Burning for Booksellers - Shop Tested Procedures for Successful Book Ignition
  5. Update Announcements
  6. Why Bookselling Isn't Working for You - Part I: Are You Hungry?

#31, 15 Nov. 2004

  1. From the Editor
  2. Why Bookselling Isn't Working for You - Part II: Are You Getting Mixed Up with the Wrong Crowd?
  3. BookThink's 50/50 - New! A Market Report for Booksellers
  4. BookThink News Alert - ScoutPal Partners with Abebooks
  5. BookThink's Author Profiles
  6. Teleportation in Science Fiction - The Fulfillment of Juvenile Desire
  7. Looking Back at Jumper, Forward to Reflex - Steven Gould, and the Return of Davy Rice

#32, 6 Dec. 2004

  1. From the Editor
  2. Why Bookselling Isn't Working for You - Part III: Who Said This Was Supposed to Be Fun?
  3. How to Buy and Sell Poetry - Sniffing Things Out in Sonnetland
  4. BookThink's Gold Edition - Common Magazines, Uncommon Profits - Part I: The Basics

#33, 20 Dec. 2004

  1. From the Editor
  2. Why Bookselling Isn't Working for You - Part IV: Tortoises, Hares and the Southern Sandbur
  3. Update Announcements
  4. BookThink's Author Profiles - The Virtues of Hard Work and a Thick Skin - An Interview with Sheila Kelly
  5. BookThink Book Review - Bio Rescue

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