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Articles - December - 2008 Issue

The Future of Bookselling

This month we are introducing the control panel for Wiki Bibliographers. For members with whom we have reached an agreement on subjects their AE screens now include links to their Wiki controls. This month, for the first time, non-AE personnel will be creating bibliographies. We will only support a single Wiki within a subject focus. That said, most Wikis are relatively narrow. Some will run to 7,000, even 10,000 items but they will be broken into a parts so that, for collectors, they are manageable.

Among the subjects already agreed:

American Pocket Maps to 1860

Audubon Books and Prints

Original Currier & Ives

Paraclete Potter, Poughkeepsie Printer

Rondout & Kingston, New York

Important Texas Maps

The California Gold Rush

19th Century Women in the West

17th century American imprints

Isaac Newton

The "Book Hospital."

Cotton Mather

Joel Munsell, Albany Printer

To be a Wiki Bibliographer you need to be a member. For most members that's an Octavo membership and includes all AE services and control over the Wiki Bibliography[ies] you are managing.

Link to Wiki Bibliography Home Page.

Link to Rondout Kingston, New York

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