Agora

Livre-Rare-Book sera présent :

- dimanche 11 mars aux Journées du Livre Ancien et de la bibliophilie en Auvergne à Chamalières

- les 17 et 18 mars au 21èmme Salon du Livre Ancien de Toulouse à la Médiathèque José Cabanis.

- du 19 au 23 mars à Paris (prendre rendez-vous)

Travaux en cours : -une multitude de corrections sur l'annuaire et les évènements. -modifier profondément l'ergonomie de Livre-Rare-Book et effectuer le même travail sur Marelibri.com. -réaliser des Portraits audiovisuels de librairies et de libraires. -développer le logiciel de saisie Le Plus Simple (genre pour les Nuls) !

Infos: Nous venons de faire imprimer un nombre important de signets Livre-Rare-Book. Si vous souhaitez diffuser ces signets auprès de vos clients nous pouvons vous les apporter sur les salons. Merci de passer commande.

Pascal Chartier

An Android application for Marelibri is now available!

You can find more information about it on the application page on Marelibri.

Do not hesitate to send feeback!

I have included the full text of our press release below; any members who wish to try for some local exposure are welcome to use it.

Karin Isgur Bergsagel

President, IOBA

NEWS RELEASE

Date: 18 April 2010

Bookbuyers' Choice Boosted by Link-Up Between Major Bookselling Organisations

Booklovers and collectors across Europe and throughout the world will have a greater choice of high quality used and antiquarian books than ever before after a historic link-up between the world's only dedicated online booksellers' association and the European-based Marelibri.com association.

The Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA) has joined forces with Marelibri.com to promote the importance of high quality, professional independent online bookselling.

Most importantly, the link-up means that all the books listed by IOBA members on IOBAbooks.com will now be available through the Marelibri.com portal. This will be facilitated by IOBAbooks.com's website host, Biblio.com.

The IOBA, founded in 1999, is the only booksellers' trade association focused solely on independent online sellers of modern, used and antiquarian books. The organization, which now has over 250 professional bookseller members from North America, Europe, Africa and Australasia, is dedicated to promoting the highest ethical standards of online bookselling among its members.

Marelibri.com was born in 2007 and has quickly become one of the largest European sites for used, antiquarian and modern books with more than 80 million books available from thousands of international independent booksellers.

IOBAbooks.com Committee Chairman Phil Keener said: "This link-up between the IOBA and Marelibri.com gives bookbuyers and collectors, particularly those in Europe, access to a greater choice of high quality used and antiquarian books than ever before.

"Both organizations are totally dedicated to ensuring that the online bookbuying experience is as safe and fulfilling as possible for customers throughout Europe and the rest of the world by promoting trust between customers and booksellers by providing a safe online environment for the sale and purchase of books."

Marelibri.com President Dr. Sergio Malavasi said: "We are proud to announce that another web site, IOBAbooks.com, has joined the Marelibri platform. IOBA is an independent association that, like our other partners, only offers books from professional booksellers. It is now possible to browse through more than 80 million books from 10 web sites on Marelibri."

ENDS

NOTES TO EDITORS

For more information please contact Phil Keener, IOBAbooks.com Committee Chairman, at Keenerbooks@wi.rr.com

Further information about IOBA, IOBAbooks.com or Marelibri.com can be found at www.ioba.org <http://www.ioba.org/> , www.iobabooks.com <http://www.iobabooks.com/> or www.marelibri.com <http://www.marelibri.com/>

___ Association mailing list Association@marelibri.com http://lists.marelibri.com/mailman/listinfo/association

We are proud to announce that another web site, Ioba.org, joined the Marelibri platform. IOBA (Independent Online Bookseller Association) is an independent association that, like other partners, only offers books coming from professional booksellers. It’s now possible to browse through more than 80 millions books on Marelibri, coming from 10 web sites.

With Ioba Marelibri confirms its place as the biggest site in the world made only by professional booksellers.

We are happy to announce the arrival of the American website Biblio.com on www.marelibri.com with, for now, 10 000 000 of books for sale...

Marelibri now allows you to search for books on : Antikvariat.net, Antiqbook, Biblio.com, Books at PBFA, Livre-Rare-Book, MareMagnum, Prolibri and Uniliber. More than 6 millions of bookshops and 38 millions of books!

Happy reading!

Chers confrères veuillez trouver ci-joint la lettre que nous venons d'envoyer aux présidents de l'ILAB

Chers Presidents de l'ILAB/LILA Le 8 septembre à Madrid, l'association Marelibri est invitée au matin du meeting des présidents pour discuter d'un partenariat éventuel de ILAB/LILA dans le projet Marelibri.

Qu'est ce que Marelibri ?

Marelibri.com est une association à but non lucratif, établie officiellement à Milan, Italie. Elle a été fondée par cinq sites européens. Deux d'entre eux sont des associations coopératives dirigées par des groupes de libraires indépendants. Ils sont Nicolas Poyato (Uniliber.com, Espagne) et Christoph Schaeffer (Prolibri.de, Allemagne). Les trois autres sont des petites entreprises privées gérée par les propriétaires qui furent eux-même libraires professionnels. Ils sont Pascal Chartier (Livre-rare-book.com, France), Sergio Malavasi (Maremagnum.com, Italie) et Piet Wesselman (Antiqbook.com, Hollande). Ces cinq ont en commun, la volonté de servir le mieux et le plus facilement possible des services la communauté des libraires professionnels pour des tarifs raisonnables. Chacun des sites participant n'accepte que des libraires professionnels et gère les conditions de ventes ainsi que le comportement de leurs membres et de leurs clients.

Le projet Marelibri

Le but de l'association est de réaliser un meta-moteur de recherche fait uniquement par des libraires professionnels indépendants et où tous les professionnels du monde peuvent être représentés. Le portail veut grandir pour avoir une dimension qui permette d'entrer en compétition avec n'importe quel site aujourd'hui sur internet. Depuis janvier 2008, Marelibri est très fonctionnel et donne déjà de bons résultats. C'est un outil simple et efficace pour la vente des livres sur le marché international. Bien que pour le moment tous les membres soient Européens, notre politique est de grandir vers une organisation qui unirait tous les libraires indépendants professionnels du monde (Et ILAB/LILA est spécialement important de ce point de vue).

Devenir Membre

L'association Marelibri.com a deux sortes de membres: les membres à part entière et les membres invités, (les invités paient moins cher). Actuellement les membres à part entière sont les cinq membres fondateurs : depuis le 1er juillet Booksatpbfa.com (Royaume Unis) a rejoint Marelibri en tant que membre invité. Nous sommes en ce moment discussions avec Antikvariat.net (Scandinavie), Ioba et Tomfolio (Associations de professionnels basées aux US) pour les affilier dans un futur proche.

L'adhésion se fait sur invitation. Seuls les sites possédés par des libraires ou des associations de libraires avec un but évident de soutenir les libraires indépendants seront invités. Les grosses compagnies commerciales (comme Abebooks, Alibris ou Amazon) seront exclues, principalement parce qu'ils acceptent aussi des vendeurs particuliers en plus des libraires. Les membres à part entière et les membres affiliés se rencontrent au moins une fois par an pour discuter de la promotion du site, approuver les comptes etc... .

Financement

Les coûts de Marelibri.com sont répartis entre les membres. Le site de Marelibri en soi ne produit pas de bénéfices. Toutes les commandes sont redirigées vers les bons de commande des sites participants. Si dans le futur un bénéfice quelconque devait être généré il ne servira qu'à payer les dépenses de Marelibri (en publicité par exemple) . Actuellement Marelibri est sous-financé et repose pour une part sur le volontariat des cinq membres fondateurs. Avec l'expension des membres, nous obtiendront aussi un équilibre financier. Les principaux coûts de Marelibri.com, sont pour le site lui-même: Deux serveurs en France; et du personnel pour la maintenance de la base de données ainsi que pour les logiciels. Si les cotisations des membres excédaient ces besoins de base de Marelibri, nous dépenserons pour de la publicité. Un rapport financier annuel sera envoyé à tous les membres de Marelibri.

Operations

Ce qui différencie Marelibri.com d'un quelconque autre moteur de recherche classique est que Marelibri regroupe toutes les données livresques de tous les participants dans une seule grosse base de données. Une base de données unique offre de meilleures possibilités de présentation et de vitesse de recherche, et ne dépend pas des performances des sites participants. Dans un futur proche, Marelibri pourra même éviter les répétitions d'un même livre présenté par un seul libraire sur plusieurs sites différents. Il n'y aura plus qu'un résultat de livre avec à côté les logos des différents sites qui le vendent, donnant ainsi au client le choix de choisir où il désire commander.

L'Avenir de Marelibri

Le but premier de Marelibri est de grandir vers un site de Librairie avec un grand choix détaillé de livres. Il devrait y avoir assez de livres dans tous les domaines, thèmes et langues pour approvisionner le grand public, les libraires professionnels ou les archivistes à partir d'une seule et unique plateforme. Il y a également un catalogue de recherche thématique, une manière différente d'accéder à la base de données. D'autres services seront bientôt mis en place. En collaboration avec ltous les participants, le contenu de Marelibri sera développé pour offrir un service meilleur encore aux libraires professionnels (blog, plusieurs langues, etc...)

Dear ILAB-LILA presidents

In Madrid, on September 8, the Association Marelibri.com is invited during the presidents' meeting in the morning, to discuss a possible partnership of ILAB/LILA in the Marelibri project.

What is Marelibri ?

Marelibri.com is a non-profit organization, formally established in Milan Italy. It has been founded by five European sites. Two of these are cooperative associations, owned by a group of independent booksellers, the three others are small private companies, driven by owners who started themselves as professional booksellers. They are Pascal Chartier (Livre-rare-book.com, France), Sergio Malavasi (Maremagnum.com, Italy) and Piet Wesselman (Antiqbook.com, The Netherlands). What all five have in common is a strong wish to serve the professional bookselling community, by providing good and friendly services for acceptable rates. Each of the participating sites accepts only professional booksellers and monitors their customers' or members' sales conditions and behaviour.

Marelibri Project

The aim of the Association is to realize a mega-search engine, made by independent professional booksellers only, where all professionals of the world can be represented. The site wants to achieve dimensions big enough to compete with any site now on the Internet. Since January 2008 Marelibri.com is fully functional and already well performing, a simple and efficient tool for the sale of books on the international market. Although at present all members are European, our policy is to grow towards an organization that unites all independent professional booksellers of the world (and ILAB/LILA is expecially important from this point of view).

Membership

The Association Marelibri.com has two kinds of membership: full members and affiliate members, (affiliate pay less). Presently full members are the five founding members: since July 1st Booksatpbfa.com (United Kingdom) joined Marelibri as an affiliate member: we are now talking with Antikvariat.net (Scandinavia), Ioba and Tomfolio (US based professional associations) in order to affiliate them in the near future.

Membership is by invitation. Only websites owned by booksellers or bookseller associations, with the clear aim to support independent booksellers, will be invited. Big commercial companies (like Abebooks, Alibris or Amazon) will be excluded, mainly because they accept private vendors as well as professional booksellers. Full member and affiliate members meet at least once in a year in order to discuss how to promote the site, approve balance, etc.

Financing

Costs of Marelibri are shared among its members. The Marelibri website itself does not generate income. All orders are forwarded to the order forms of the participating websites. If in the future some form of income can be generated (e.g. advertising) this will only serve to pay for Marelibri's costs. Presently Marelibri is underfinanced and in part relies on services voluntarily delivered by the founding members. With the expansion of its membership we will also obtain a financial balance. Marelibri's main costs are for the website: two servers stationed in France; and staff for database maintenance and software. If income from membership fees should exceed these 'basic needs' Marelibri will spend some on advertising. An annual financial report will be extended to all members of Marelibri.

Operations

What differentates Marelibri's database and search facilities from so-called metasearch engines is that Marelibri gathers all book data fom its participants into one large database. A unique database offers better opportunities for presentation and speed, and does not rely on the performance of the participating sites. In the near future Marelibri will be able to avoid any repetition of the records of a book which a single bookseller is presenting on various platforms. It will only show the volume once alongside the logos of the various platforms, giving the customer a free choice of where he wants to order it from.

Marelibri's future

Marelibri's first goal is to grow to a bookselling website with a large, comprehensive offer of books. It should have enough books in all ranges, subjects and languages to provide a one-stop shop for the book buying public and the professional librarian or archivist. There is a Thesaurus - a presentation of books by subject - to enable an attractive way of accessing the database. Additional services will be provided. In cooperation with all participants content will be developed to provide better services for the professional bookseller (blog, several languages, etc.).

Dear bookseller,

When the internet started, many people thought that internet could be a new powerful system for selling books. And that was true, at the beginning. Now, after some years, we have on the web the three "A's" (Amazon, Abebooks and Alibris) and Ebay, dominating internet with huge amounts of books offered both by professionals and private people (and often crooks as well). The problem is that more and more private people are selling directly to other private people in these giant sites, often with unauthorized cut/paste of professional databases.

From now on, we should stop letting big financial groups take hold of the result of our work. Their use of the digital world and their use of non-professionals is the negation of our profession!

The following sites:

        Antiqbook.com
        Livre-Rare-Book.com
        Maremagnum.com
        Prolibri.com
        Uniliber.com

thought that it is possible to find a solution. In November 2007 they founded a non-profit association in order to create Marelibri.com, a mega search engine, made by independent professional booksellers, where all professionals of the world could be represented, big enough to compete with the three "A's" and Ebay. Our aim is to provide a sales platform for professional booksellers only, where all professionals of the world will be represented. Since January 2008 Marelibri.com is fully functional and already well performing, a simple and efficient tool for the sale of books on the international market. On June 7, 2008 London, we met and spoke about possible cooperation with IOBA, Tomfolio, PBFA and ANTIQVARIAT.net. Some of these sites will join Marelibri very soon. We have also been officially invited to the next ILAB presidents meeting, in order to discuss a possible cooperation between ILAB and Marelibri. Marelibri invites every independent professional site to join our meeting in Madrid, the evening of September 8. But each independent bookseller can do something: join at least one of the sites that are constituting Marelibri. Let's discuss the situation of our profession, let's find solutions. A blog has just put on line on Marelibri in order to give a place where all the professionals in the world can discuss and propose their ideas.

Marelibri.com